Religion and Science
7. The ‘Religion’ of the Modern Age
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devoted their activities to worthwhile tasks in
different fields, but their researches are not
equal to the task in hand. Mathematics,
physics, and chemistry are indispensable but
not basic sciences in the researches concerning
living organisms. They are not capable of
constructing the concepts specific to the
human being. The biological workers of
tomorrow must realize that their goal is the
living organism and not merely artificially
isolated systems or models: that general
physiology, as considered by Bayliss, is a very
small part of physiology.
We know that the evolution of humanity is
very slow, that the study of its problems
demands the lifetime of several generations of
scientists. We need, therefore, an institution
capable of providing for the uninterrupted
pursuit for at least a century of the
investigations concerning man. Modern
society should be given an intellectual focus,
an immortal brain, capable of conceiving and
planning its future (pp. 261-67).
