ABSTRACT
The traditional separation of science from the rest of culture was a superficial and temporarily permissible procedure which must now be dropped when fundamental issues are being treated. It is the unprecedented transformation of the conditions of human life by what is called "science" that renders greater clarity necessary. The fact that incomplete and only partially unified sciences must somewhere prove misleading draws our attention to a remarkable fact which though obvious to specialists, or perhaps because it is obvious, has not yet received any explanation or interpretation. Biological theory is still at an early stage and lacks clarity. Psychological theory and social theory are in large degree matters of personal preference, as there is no agreement on basic principles. If individual specialists tend to exaggerate their knowledge, this personal weakness becomes a social scandal in scientific orthodoxies. Only the elderly or old can know the experience of seeing young skeptics becoming ruthless dogmatists as they grow old and secure.
