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- W4238208376 abstract "AT the annual statutory meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh held on October 26, the president, Sir Alfred Ewing, delivered an address on some of the modern aspects of physical research. He said that the functions of a scientific society are to provide (i) facilities for intercourse, formal and informal; (2) a library of reference; and (3) a means of publication. The records of scientific research are not a readily marketable commodity and would fare badly if they were left to depend on the laws of supply and demand. Looking back through the old publications of the Royal Society of Edinburgh would disclose many papers by Kelvin and others which may without exaggeration be described as marking epochs in the history of discovery. The urge towards scientific research is not mainly utilitarian, but arises from a special type of intellectual curiosity. A scientific society is, consciously or not, propagandist in that it extends an interest in science beyond the bounds of the scientific workers. There is, in fact, a greatly changed attitude now towards science and the scientific method. Research has now found a place not only in manufacture and in industry, but even in the budgets of the politician. The foundations of the older physics have been rudely shaken, with a notable effect on the mental attitude of the scientific expert. The old positiveness is gone. We are faced with dilemmas from which there is apparently no way out. For example, how to reconcile the facts of interference and diffraction with the equally well-established facts of absorption and photo-electricity, we simply do not know. Hence, along with the pride of achievement in all this notable progress, there is mingled a consciousness of mystery and humility. The widening of the circle of light has made wider the circumference of darkness which, for the moment at least, seems curiously impenetrable." @default.
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