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THE admonition in NATURE of December 28 to abandon “once and for all the belief that science is set apart from all other social interests as if it possessed a peculiar holiness” expresses very precisely the opposite of what many men of science consider to be their duty. I, for one, can recognize nothing more holy than scientific truth, and consider it a danger to science and to humanity if the pursuit of pure science, regardless of society, is denied by a representative organ of science.
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POLANYI, M. Cultural Significance of Science. Nature 147, 119 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147119b0
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