‘Science by itself and so far as I can see only science by itself, unadulterated by mixture with any contrary ideal, is able to provide mankind with a way of life which is, firstly, self-consistent and harmonious, and, secondly, free for the exercise of that objective reason on which our material progress depends’ (p. 124). This claim is made by Dr. Waddington in his interesting but in some ways absurd little book: The Scientific Attitude.