Editorial

Training the Research Worker: The reorganisation of scientific research and university education in Independent India.on lines, which would enable her to keep pace with the rest of advanced countries in the world,in the matter of industrial and academic progress,is now engaging the attention of our statesmen and leading scientists.In the editorial columns of a recent issue of 'Nature'are discussed certain aspects relating to modern trends in organisation for scientific research,which are well worth a close study."The division of the world into two sharply contrasted groups has repercussions in the field of science and of scientific research if no more than as affecting the ideas which men hold about the freedom of science".The progress in pursuit of knowledge is made rapidly and securely only when individuals are free to entertain any hypothesis,and whrn the survival of the hypothesis is determined soley by the rigour of test against cold facts,and not by any arbitrary ruling:and political dogma shoould never be allowed to ictate the teaching and ptractice of sciences.