There is another question that is becoming more and more urgent for 

 us to answer in connection with science. Since science grows in a special 

 social medium, which furnishes the opportunities and the heritage from the 

 past, and since making use of science depends upon very complex organiza- 

 tion and wide co-operation, we shall have to answer the question Who owns 

 science? Is it the individual investigator making a particular discovery? Is 

 it the university or other laboratory in which he works ? Is it the individual 

 or corporation that hires the scientist, often using his results for private gain 

 rather dian general advantage? 



Man's adjustments to life depend more and more upon his imagination 

 and intelligence and invention. They depend more and more upon the di- 

 vision of labor, co-operation on a larger and larger scale, and more socializa- 

 tion of effort. Science cannot continue to serve us unless we give it a chance 

 to serve the whole community, the entire race. For if we do not use it crea- 

 tively to serve all, but let it be turned aside for private or partial interests, 

 we shall convert the power which science yields into the most destructive 

 that man has yet tried to control. Any individual or any group that seeks 

 to control science becomes the enemy of all mankind. 



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