Forum Discusses Limits of Science

Scientific thought is probably our most useful method of reasoning but we must not consider it the only way to think, Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, aid Monday night at the first fall term Adams House Forum.

Some 70 students crammed the small Adams Upper Common Room to hear Aiken and Philippe E. Le Corbeiller, lecturer in Applied Physics, discuss the Limits of Science." Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was moderator.

Aiken emphasized that there are certain "first principles of philosophy which scientific thinking cannot explain."

Le Corbeiller said that advance in science is virtually limitless when it can be worked with quantitatively. The chief limit on science is the time it takes to transform aspects of it from a qualitative to a quantitative basis, he stated.