THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES,
ORGANISING KNOWLEDGE. When Sir Ernest Rutherford was in New Zealand a few months ago he remarked to an interviewer that science was only organised knowledge. He went on to explain, in effect, that science is not the theoretic, impractical tiling that litany people carelessly imagine it to he; the sric,mists by adding to the sum of human knowledge arc laying solid foumlat inns tor future building by those we call the practical men in almost every sphere of activity that enables mankind to have the necessaries of life and those added things which give pleasure and lessen drudgery. This may be a materialistic age, but that is certainly good to the extent that it entails recognition of the usefulness of science in evorvdav affairs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1926, Page 2
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128THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES, Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1926, Page 2
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