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Popularization of Science Through News

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Gobind Behari Lal*
Affiliation:
University Place, New York City

Extract

During these five war years science has proclaimed and demonstrated its role as Hercules. It has employed as its loudspeaker the bursting bomb, and as its courier the swift vehicle. Its blows have been instantly lethal.

Next, science has shown its skill as the fabricator of useable goods. And, lastly the giant has revealed some of its mild and even compassionate moods as the binder of man's mortal wounds and the healer of his fevers and mental abberations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1945

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Footnotes

Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science” Meeting, Sept. 13, 1944, Cleveland, O.