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ONE of the paradoxes of civilized life is the lowly position occupied among the sciences by the study of living things. There seems, in Great Britain at least, to be a general disposition to regard biology as something in the nature of a pastime, while the physicist, and the chemist are held in respect as serious practitioners. Only in the treatment and, to a modest degree, the prevention of disease, and in agriculture, has biological science a recognized position. That the well-being of the human race is closely bound up with the ineludible facts of life, which together constitute the equilibrium of Nature, is not generally recognized.
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Professional Status of the Biologist. Nature 162, 867–868 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162867a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162867a0