8 SCIENCE REMAKING THE WORLD 



intolerance of a group which is uninformed regarding 

 scientific matters. 



Further, there is no monopoly of uninformedness. 

 Those who do not know science often do know much 

 of human nature or practical affairs, or of government, 

 or of literature, art, and social relations; and some 

 of these are equally essential in accomplishing the 

 things which are really worth while. It usually helps 

 to get the point of view of the other man, and also 

 increases the light of vision and reduces the heat of 

 friction. 



One of the heaviest obligations on modern science 

 requires that it shall organize and present many of its 

 results so that these results may be seen and understood 

 by intelligent but non-scientific persons. People will 

 eventually follow the truth, but they cannot follow it 

 unless they can amidst their confusion see its light at 

 least often enough and clearly enough to enable then? 

 to keep the general direction in which truth is moving. 

 In our day they cannot be expected to follow truth too 

 constantly merely by the admonitions of someone 

 whose evidences are known to him but unknown to 

 them. 



In the rapid development of science another serious 

 social need has arisen among the science men them- 

 selves. The separate sectors or divisions of science have 

 been so compelling in their interest, so gigantic in their 

 possibilities, and so exacting upon the time and energy 

 of specialists, that many specialists have lost perspec- 

 tive of the whole field of science, not to speak of the 

 other necessary human interests mentioned above. 



