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THAT there should be some machinery for the purpose of establishing a connecting link between Parliament and science is a proposition to which much lip-service has been paid, but, until recently, little more than that. Much might be written to demonstrate the desirability of such liaison. The effort would only amount to pushing an open door; the outlook for achievement would be more promising if that door were not open. To have aspirations accepted without their translation into action is a far less healthy situation than to encounter a virile opposition which engenders conflict. An unchallenged ideal which is not translated into action only finds an inglorious resting place in ‘no man's land’.
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Science in Parliament. Nature 132, 981–983 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132981a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132981a0