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Defence and the indefensible

November 1993
Physics World 6(11):43-44

DOI:10.1088/2058-7058/6/11/29

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There was a time when many scientists thought that they lived in an ivory tower, pretending that their work had nothing to do with the outside world. The aim of science was to understand the laws of Nature, and since these are immutable and unaffected by human reactions and emotions, these reactions and emotions have no place in the study of Nature.

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