Some of the nation's top scientists gathered last week at Yale to honor the nation's first and one of its best scientific research centers (see SCIENCE). They could reasonably have expected to hear self-congratulatory speeches on the centennial of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School. Instead, from the school's director himself, they heard the explicit suggestion that science doesn't know all the answers, and never will.
Said grey, spindly Director Edmund W. Sinnott: "Science is modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its...
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