C. H. Waddington - The scientific attitude (1941)

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Science, if given its head, is not just cold efficiency; its attitude is tolerant, friendly and humane. It has already become the dominant inspiration of human culture, so that modern poetry, painting and architecture derive their most constructive ideas from scientific thought.

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Science is the organized attempt of mankind to discover how things work as causal systems.

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Science as a whole certainly cannot allow its judgment about facts to be distorted by ideas of what ought to be true, or what one may hope to be true.

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The best of modern art is compatible only with true science, and the bogus science requires a fake art to keep it company.

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Scientific knowledge and understanding is a communal achievement, the sum of a multitude of contributions from many different people. Any individual may feel a certain justifiable pride if he knows that he has added one brick to the structure.

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