Direction of research

✍ Scribed by Ellice McDonald

• Book ID: 103080144
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1949
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 477 KB
• Volume: 247
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(49)90455-x

✦ Synopsis

Direction of Research.--ELLICE MCDONALD, Director. A research organization should follow Cardinal Manning's definition of a univeristy, "a place whereenquiryis pushed forward and discoveries perfected and verified, and rashness is rendered innocuous and error exposed by the collision of mind with mind and knowledge with knowledge." This expresses the function of a research institute also with perhaps a little too much emphasis on exposure of error, as the research spirit is more concerned with the revelation of truth. In such an organization made up of scientists with great knowledge of their subjects, the director is more of a coordinating executive than one who makes hard and fast decisions. Amongthe group he is primusinter pares because some situations eventuate where some one person must make the final decision.