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President Truman on Science Funding: 1948 (938 words) |
 | Almost 50 years ago, in September 1948, President Harry Truman addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science on its 100th anniversary. |
| Its report, entitled Science and Public Policy,' was submitted last fall to the 80th Congress. |
| We have been strong in applied science and in technology, but in the past we have relied largely on Europe for basic knowledge. |
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weaver-1947b.htm (3998 words) |
| It is not surprising that up to 1900 the life sciences were largely concerned with the necessary preliminary stages in the application of the scientific method-preliminary stages which chiefly involve collection, description, classification, and the observation of concurrent and apparently correlated effects. |
| It is tempting to forecast that the great advances that science can and must achieve in the next fifty years will be largely contributed to by voluntary mixed teams, somewhat similar to the operations analysis groups of war days, their activities made effective by the use of large, flexible, and highspeed computing machines. |
| The essence of science is not to be found in its outward appearance, in its physical manifestations; it is to be found in its inner spirit. |
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