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•True science always stands upon a frontier. It probes at the edges of our 
knowledge and our ignorance, and we accept its contributions as valuable, 
its continuation as a necessity. Perceived as a graducil extension of the 
sphere of knowledge, science is accepted and praised as both our benefactor 
and our servant. 
■This is the science with which we are most canfortable, the science which 
explains how things work, v^ich promises health, physical wellHDeing, and 
tiBterial progress. 
"But the boundaries of the physical and biological sciences are not so easily 
contained. From time to time we find or come upon a field of inquiry which 
fundamentally challenges our concepts of life and nature, which confronts 
us too directly for our collective comfort or convenience, and yet intrigues 
us too greatly to ignore. 
"It is on this meeting ground of science and philosophy where man has made 
his greatest scientific advances. It is also here that science has caused 
its greatest strains upon our social, political, and religious institutions. 
"When Galileo offered the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, it 
was bad enough to his contenporaries that he committed scientific error. It 
was worse that he committed heresy as well. 
"Yet Galileo probed only the physical universe. As science has progressed and 
transformed our lives in so nany ways, we have rejected nany of the dogmas of 
an earlier day.... 
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