![]() The result was global woe: “to defective education was due the general neglect of science and 'muddling through',” as he told the 11th annual meeting of the British Science Guild ( Nature 99, 186–187 1917). (This positivistic idea of science was fairly short-lived, lasting only from Charles Darwin's dethroning of humanity as the summit of creation to the early-twentieth-century advent of quantum mechanics, which undermined claims of absolute scientific certainty.) But Britain's educational system failed to enshrine science properly, Wells felt the privileged status of classics was a consistent target of his ire. Wells recording for the BBC (top) and during his biology studies at university.Ĭredit: Top: BBC Photo Library Bottom: Archivio GBB/Contrasto/Eyevineįor Wells, the scientific method conferred on its user the authority to rethink and challenge these stale ideas, and should underpin every area of human endeavour. ![]()
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