ABSTRACT
‘The scientific and technical world of modern man is the result of his daring enterprise, knowledge without love. Such knowledge is in itself neither good nor bad. Its worth depends on what power it serves. Its ideal has been to remain free of any power.’ He is an observer-participant: he acts and feels as part of the situation which he is observing. And so both of these can be distinguished from the third relationship of observer-predictor in which the aim of the scientist is to withdraw from the situation as far as possible. In choosing a language from an observer standpoint to describe a human being, there are many levels open to us.
