Education: The Purists

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Actually, says DuBridge, science is merely one path to greater understanding. "Men climb Mt. Everest, explore the bottom of the sea, sail to the far corners of the earth, explore the atom, the crystal and the stars—all because they are born explorers . . . Are science and engineering just the tools for man's amusement and for his ultimate destruction? Let us say, rather—and more truthfully—that they are his ... tools in his eternal struggle to achieve his highest ... spiritual ends."

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