PREFACE 



posium did actually not neglect them. It is true that there was 

 no discussion of their content or special problems, hut neither 

 was there discussion of the content or special problems of 

 mathematics, or geophysics, or astronomy. The intent was to 

 focus attention on problems general to all scientific work. 



With respect to the humanities, fine arts, and indeed the 

 whole range of man's intellectual life, the interesting and sig- 

 nificant thing is that, whatever the intended range of topic in 

 the Symposium program, those who attended again and again 

 stressed the fact that the health of any one restricted aspect of 

 science depends upon the health of man's total intellectual effort 

 and program. 



As the reader will learn from the summary chapter, the 

 scientists refused to limit their interest to any one compartment 

 of man's creative life and insisted on emphasizing that any 

 proper program of basic research in science be an integral part 

 of a much broader program of support for creative scholarship 

 in the broadest sense of that term. 



Warren Weaver 

 August 1959 



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