ALAN T. WATERMAN 



bottom, the society of scientists is more important than their dis- 

 coveries. What science has to teach us here is not its techniques 

 but its spirit: the irresistible need to explore . . . the inspiration 

 of science for four hundred years has . . . created the values of 

 our intellectual life and, with the arts, has taught them to our 

 civilization. Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the 

 ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values 

 than the human and imaginative values which science has evolved. 

 The shame is ours if we do not make science part of our world, 

 intellectually as much as physically, so that we mav at last hold 

 these halves of the world together by the same values. For it is 

 the lesson of science that the concept is more profound than its 

 laws, and the act of judging more critical than the judgment . . . 

 "Poetry does not move us to be just or unjust, in itself. It moves 

 us to thoughts in whose light justice and injustice are seen in 

 fearful sharpness of outline." What is true of poetry is true of all 

 creative thought. And what I said ... of one value is true of all 

 human values. The values by which we are to survive are not rules 

 for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in 

 whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends 

 are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. 



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