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HAVING listened to the discussions opened by Prof. Lancelot Hogben and by Mr. L. J. F. Brimble, reported in a recent issue of NATURE1, on the role of human applications in science teaching, it seems to me that something may be gained by examining, from a scientific point of view, the nature of science itself. Science, we are told, is a method of observation and classification of phenomena. But this is, metaphorically speaking, only its physiology. It has also an evolution and an ecology. How did it come into existence? In what surroundings does it flourish?
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HARRIS, E. Science and Science Teaching. Nature 149, 734 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149734a0
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