The role of pure science in European civilisation
MAY 01, 1965
DOI: 10.1063/1.3047425
The subject on which I am to address you raises novel problems of great public interest and importance. We are surely all very conscious of the fact that the headlong advance of science, and the technological developments which it has called into being, have profoundly modified our whole civilization and the process is manifestly continuing. Science is an indispensable and rapidly growing element in our culture.
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C. F. Powell, University of Bristol.
© 1965 American Institute of Physics
