SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS
CONCERNING SCIENCE, by Sherwood Taylor; McDonald. English Price, 6/-. HIS is an outline of the influence of science on life and thought which leads to a study of the limitations of science. The book is really an inquiry into what is important in man and to man. We all agree that science is moving further and further from "commonsense" and that it does not seek ultimate conclusions. Indeed, few scientists would join with the author in believing such ultimate conclusions to be_ possible. Sherwood Taylor’s analysis of our scientific civilisation reveals our increasing interdependence and shows how key minorities, be they nuclear physicists er
wharf-labourers, attain to power. This part of the work, together with his opinfons on the responsibility of the scientist for the uses to which his work is put, may well prove the most interesting reading to the non-scientist. The book deals at length with emotional and religious experience. One must agree that science is only one branch of mental activity and that the emotional life is as real as any other. Science, however, is not concerned with these, but with sense impressions. Apparently Sherwood Taylor is capable of that self-surrender which makes possible the ecstasy of the mystic. Many scientists find this impossible for them; others. experience an exaltation centred on-
science ‘itself.
J.D.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 545, 2 December 1949, Page 19
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