Books: Science, Englished

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THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE—]. W. N. Sullivan—Viking ($2.75). Many plain men are puzzled, irritated or tantalized about Science and would like to know what it is up to. But scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern...

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