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The Unity of Man and Science |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE |
| Author: D.H.R. Barton |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 2,591 Words, 15,670 Characters |
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This article was presented as an address at the Twentieth International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences.
Perhaps I am not qualified to speak on behalf of all mankind, but I do think that I am worthy to represent experimental science.
For the last ten years, I have been a "distinguished" professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. The initials "A" and "M" stand for Agricultural and Mechanical. This means that we are useful, hard-working, and mostly interested in the practical applications of science. We have an Institute of Agriculture and another for engineering, which are funded by the state of Texas. We also share with the University of Texas at Austin a special research institute for oil drilling funded by the National Science Foundation. The i...
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...ese (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1992) pp. 144-148.
2. In Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams, ed. J.I. Seeman (Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1991).
© 1997 International Cultural Foundation. This article originally appeared in Absolute Values and the Unity of the Sciences: The Origin and Human Responsibility, published by the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences.
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