Science these days seems all but omnipotent. Its practitioners build nuclear weapons powerful enough to pulverize much of the world; they put together space vehicles with which man can probe deep into ...

WHAT science is and the present state of its proficiency, as well as its limitations, are engagingly set forth by J. W. N. Sullivan in The Limitations of Science (Viking Press, $2.75). Mr. Sullivan ...

Modern science has revolutionized our world. Science frequently responds to health crises, develops new technologies which improve our standards of living, grants us novel insights about the world, ...

THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE—]. W. N. Sullivan—Viking ($2.75). Many plain men are puzzled, irritated or tantalized about Science and would like to know what it is up to. But scientists in general, their ...

The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. You can find all of the stories here. As an intensive care ...

“Would the world be a better, or even a different, place if the public understood more of the scope and the limitations, the findings and the methods of science?” This question was taken up in 1985 by ...