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IT might serve a useful scientific purpose to point out some remarkable anomalies that have resulted from attempts to deduce philosophical conclusions from the findings of pure scientific research. Modern science has as yet no philosophy of its own, but the significance of its great achievements experimentally cannot be interpreted legitimately by means of the speculative philosophy of the school-men. Much attention has been paid to the general reader by writers who try to explain physical phenomena ‘philosophically’ without a clearly defined technical vocabulary. That such attempts have been premature and ill-considered is evident by the confusion in the minds of many persons, lay and scientific, as to the future of science.
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L., W. The ‘Absolute’ and ‘Relative’. Nature 124, 126 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124126a0
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