The reading and listening public “knows,” among other things: that in our culture there are two cultures, composed of the men of science and the men of non-science—an alarming split when we consider how fast knowledge is growing among the men of science;

that there has been a scientific revolution, or perhaps two—or more—for the surer saddening of man: first Newton removed God from the center of the universe, then Darwin removed Man, and finally Freud removed Mind…

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.