PURE SCIENCE.
WORK OF BRITISH PIO'XEBES. Christehureh, Feb. 4. At the civic reception to the Science Confess delegates to-day. Dr L. Cocknyne, president of the Mew Zealand Institute, m acknowledging the welcome, said that the public, wliiin expressing its appreciation of applied science, failed often to recognise the value of pure science, and to see that without pure science there could be no applied science at all. Commenting on the statement that the British ICmpire, up to the present, had not done her scientific duty- Dr. Cockayne expressed hunsel? as strongly opposed to that view No nation hud done its scientific duty so worthily as (lie glorious British Kmpire, of which they were citizens Certain names of very great scientific men were household names Need he mention Sir Isaac Newton, and, in later times, Michael Faraday, without whose discoveries there could have been no frozen meat industry in New Zealand to-day? Yet he dul not see a single statue of Michael Faraday m this Dominion, And what of Charles Darwin, that great man who had revolutionised the science of life'!
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1919, Page 3
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180PURE SCIENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1919, Page 3
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