ABSTRACT
IT is to be hoped that one day the history of science will itself become a science. The guarantee of this is the growth, plain even in its smallest details, of science and technique and the hundreds of thousands of human beings who are creating the history of science on the earth before our eyes. We cannot neglect this unceasing movement, this powerful manifestation of nature, capable of changing the earth no less radically than earthquakes and floods. To understand this process, means, as always, to master it in many ways and to learn to direct it where necessary. The history of science is a necessary and, perhaps, even a sufficient prerequisite for the planning of science. So sooner or later the history of science must become a science.
