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Science for Scientists Too?

by A.H. Hobbs

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Modern Science and Its Philosophy, by Philipp Frank. 316 pp. New York: George Braziller, Inc. $3.00

A public which is drugged with the delusion that all professors are scientists may find it something of a shock to learn that one professor feels that many scientists know little or nothing about science. Even the archetype scientist, the graduate in physics, he thinks, “is generally less trained than the educated layman … on such problems as are daily discussed in magazines and lectures about the influence of modern physics on human affairs.”

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