The Social Function of Science

activities actual administrative advance agricultural already aluminium amount anarchic apparatus application of science become biological Britain capital carried cent century chemical industry chemistry civilization co-ordination consequently considerable course defence demand development of science difficulties direct discovery economic economic system effective existing expenditure extent fact factors Fascism field firms function German Government greater human ideas important improvement increase individual industrial research inefficiency institutes interest invention J. B. S. Haldane Julian Huxley knowledge laboratory lack large number Lord Stamp manufacture Marxism material means mechanical medical research Medical Research Council ment methods military modern National Physical Laboratory nature Nazi obsolescence organization particularly patents physics political possible practice present problems processes production profit research workers Royal Society scientific method scientific research scientific workers scientists social society Soviet Union teaching technical techniques theory tion tradition universities waste whole