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The Missing Factor in Science

Nature volume 160, pages 612–613 (1947)Cite this article

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Prof. H. Dingle, in his inaugural lecture at University College, London1, has done me the honour of coupling my name with that of the late Sir Arthur Eddington as horrible examples of distinguished thinkers “making statements of the greatest import which even an intelligent child can see to be directly contradicted by the facts”.

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  • Nature, 160, 108 (July 26, 1947).

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  • âœThe Social Function of Scienceâ, by J. D. Bernal (Routledge, 1939).

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  1. Birkbeck College (University of London), London, E.C.4.

    J. D. BERNAL

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BERNAL, J. The Missing Factor in Science. Nature 160, 612–613 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160612a0

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