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AMONG the misfortunes of this present age are the tendencies of the Press to seize on the sensational in the business of science, and of the public to expect such sensational pronouncements. This, equally with the absence of an adequate scientific element in our general educational system, of which the first is indeed a consequence, is mainly responsible for the general failure to understand the scientific spirit and the place of science in our civilisation.
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Progress and Scientific Method. Nature 131, 1–3 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131001a0
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