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Science
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
摘要：
THE steady increase in our knowledge of the world around us brings in its wake the need for a steadily changing attitude to the methods whereby the next generation may best be fitted both to take advantage of the new developments and to continue the advance. While this is true both of the physical and of the biological sciences, tho problems involved are more severe in biology since biologists are finding it more and more necessary to make use of the principles, the techniques and the discoveries of physics and chemistry, and to make ever-increasing use of mathematical ***. H. V. Wyatt, of the Bacteriology Department of tho University of Leeds, clearly under the influence of the spectacular advances made in 'molecular biology' since the end of the Second World War, has commented adversely on the present attitude to modern biology of university departments in Britain in an article1 which has stimulated Prof. H. E. Street of the Botany Department at Swansea to a spirited defence of Botany Departments at least2 It is Wyatt's thesis that 'molecular biology' has at last created an atmosphere in which there may for the first time be a subject which can be called biology. He contends that departments of biology in Britain are failing to meet this situation as well as are the corresponding institutions in the United States, and conveys the impression that this is in part because British departments are staffed by narrow specialists. In his opinion "only the complete biologist can hope to map the new territories", and clearly by "complete" he means one who has been taught "biology as a unified discipline" ranging from "the latest findings in biochemistry and biophysics" to "a love and understanding of living plants and animals". He suggests, moreover, that by training such complete biologists "we can shed some of the crafts which now occupy so much time in school and university". It is Street's major contention that Wyatt shows himself in all this to bo out of touc
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