Science and Government Author:Snow, C. P. "... how can we make use of scientists in government with the greatest effect and the least risk[?] Sir Charles tells the story, hitherto unpublished, of the bitter and damaging wartime enmity between [Sir Henry Tigard and F.A. Lindemann,] two eminent British scientists both powerful in government. ... This was a tragic example of the use and mi... more »suse of scientific ability. Sir Charles derives lines of approach ... that will reduce the dangers of the many inescapable situations in which "cardinal choices have to be made by a handful of men: in secret; and ... by men who cannot have a firsthand knowledge of what those choices depend on or what those results may be."« less