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Of Science And Scientists 🥅 Educational Films from Harvard, in the 1950's (1957)

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Of Science And Scientists ★ 🥅 Educational Films from Harvard, in the 1950's ••• Of Science And Scientists consists of 23 episodes produced in 1957 by WGBH (Boston) and Harvard College and distributed by National Educational Television - NET "Americans tend to think of the sciences as potentially useful (air-conditioning) or potentially troublesome (Strontium-90). Such an understanding of science does not come easily. Limited by time and opportunity, scientists do not often explain themselves to non-scientists. Also, the quality of science is most difficult to the layman to understand is its indirect approach to the discovery of truths. Robert Frost summed up the problem by commenting that to his mind all science rested on the question, "How she differs from what she's like." Without attempting to teach physics or chemistry or geology, these programs suggest the qualities and outlook of science. By analogy and demonstration, they reveal the ideas which guide scientific research and the truths that research uncovers. They give an appreciation of what the scientist can and cannot do. As one speaker says, "The important thing about science is not merely that it gives rise to technological miracles, but that it provides us with one of many guidebooks we need to find our way in this universe." Today, as non-scientists are called upon to make decisions or concur in decisions that may affect the future of scientific research and even the future of life, a knowledge of "how she…

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