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Science in New Zealand Supplement to Salient, Vol. 28, No. 7. 1965.

[introduction]

During a recent meeting of the Wellington branch of the Royal Society some hard words were said about the failure of New Zealand Universities to make their science students aware of the country's industrial problems and thus assist the national economy. Apart from this agelong controversy centred around pure versus applied research, the above meeting and several others in the past have revealed so many differences of opinion on fundamental aspects of science amongst veteran professionals that a discussion on some of these aspects may be of benefit to a science student.