Science and Human Values.

The power of science for good and for evil has troubled many minds. The aim of this article is to show that the parts of civilization make a whole: to display the links which give society its coherence. In particular, the author wants to show the place of science in the canons of conduct which it has still to perfect. Science is full of useful inventions. These inventions have been directed by social needs. Yet it was not their usefulness which dominated and set light to the minds of those who made them. All the discoveries of science, all works of art, are explorations of a hidden likeness. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.