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The great advantages of a world cooperation based 

 on science are easily enumerated. Firstly, there is the 

 universal validity of scientific knowledge: all intelligent 

 people can verify the recognized conclusions of science 

 for themselves. Secondly, there is the objectivity of science: 

 since, in science, only objective reality is accepted, we can 

 feel sure that scientific knowledge is free of errors of thought 

 as far as the human race can eliminate these. Thirdly, 

 there is the proven success of scientific method in bettering 

 human welfare on the Earth. No other philosophy exists 

 in the world which can approach that of science in re- 

 spect of these highly important merits. 



It is obviously a prime essential of any philosophy 

 which is to be considered as a possibility to unite all people, 

 that the basic ideas will be provable to all. Science satis- 

 fies this requirement completely, since, as everyone who 

 has studied even elementary science knows, every scientific 

 answer to a problem is obtained or verified by experiment, 

 and the correctness of the conclusions reached through 

 experiment are demonstrable by repetition of the experi- 

 ment. Each experiment to decide a given question, when 

 performed under identical conditions, always provides the 

 same answer irrespective of the experimenter conducting the 

 experiment. Scientific education consists of teaching each 

 student that: (a) He or she must not accept as true or 

 false anything which cannot be experimentally proved to 



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