S cience, a wellspring of our discontent.

Science has many images; and it has many spokesmen. A century and a half ago, Goethe said of science, "To one man it is the highe t thing, a heavenly goddess; to another it is a productive and proficient cow, who supplies him with butter." On TV, a scientist may be a mad genius, or a man in a white lab coat, or an iron-willed and hard-driving researcher without time for, or interest in, his wife or children. On TV, science is space rockets, computers, and miracle coatings that make razor blades last longer, cut closer. But I believe that, in searching for a spokesman for science, I could scarcely find a wiser man to quote before an AAAS audience than a past president, Warren Weaver, who wrote in 1960 :