z6 THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



My predecessors have spoken of the shortcomings of the active 

 world — to me they are but the fallings short of science. Wherever we 

 look we discover that if we are to avoid trouble we must take trouble 

 — scientific trouble. The duality which puts science and man's other 

 activity in contrasted categories with disharmony to be resolved, 

 gaps to be bridged, is unreal. We are simply beholding ever-extend- 

 ing science too rough round the edges as it grows. 



What we have learnt concerning the proper impact of science 

 upon society in the past century is trifling, compared with what we 

 have yet to discover and apply. We have spent much and long upon 

 the science of matter, and the greater our success the greater must be 

 our failure, unless we turn also at long last to an equal advance in the 

 science of man. 



