The Science of Science

Can we use scientific methods to analyze the structure of science itself? With the article by Derek J. de Solla Price that follows, the Bulletin presents the second of six articles based upon the “Monday Lectures,” a series of talks given at the University of Chicago in the spring of 1965 in the hope of initiating anew discussion on the nature of man, his place in the universe, and his biological, intellectual, and social potentialities. Dr. Price is professor of the history of science at Yale University and author of Science Since Babylon and Big Science, Little Science. The complete texts of the Monday Lectures are being published by the University of Chicago Press, under the title New Views of the Nature of Man.