72 SOCIAL SCIENTIST it is advancing towards the only true method and the only true philo" sophy of natural science, not directly, but by zigzags, not consciously^ but instinctively, not clearly perceiving its ^nal goal,' but drawing closer to it gropingly, unsteadily, and sometimes even with its back turned to it. Modern physics is in travail; it is giving birth to dialectical materialism. The process of child-birth is painful. And in addition to a living healthy being, there are bound to be produced certainr dead products, refuse fit only for the garbage heap. And physical idealism... must be regarded as such refuse.24 This, the Marxist-Leninist presentation of the question of true scientific method and philosophy, applies as much to the 'new physics' of today, as it did to the 'new physics' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. T JAYARAMAN * Loren R Graham, Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, Alien Lane, 1973, Chill, p99. fl A A Sokolov in Philosophical Problems of Elementary-Particle Physics, Progress Publishers Moscow 1968, p 263. 8 See E I Bitsakis, "Symmetry and Contradiction", Science and Society, Fall 1974, Vol 38 No 3, pp 326-346. 4 J D Bernal, Science in History, Watts & Co, London 1954, p 532. 5 D Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics, Routlcde and Kegan Paul, 1957, p 75» 6 L Ponomarev, In Quest of the Quantum, MIR Publishers, Moscow 1973. 7 V Rydnik, ABC9 s of Quantum Mechanics, MIR Publishers, Moscow 1958. 8 VRydnik,^. cit., p 114. 9 D Blokhintsev cited in Graham, op. eit., p 84. 1 ° D Blokhintsev cited in Graham, op. cit., p 92. 1 * Ibid. la V A Fock cited in Graham, op.cit., p 87. 18 V A Fock, cited in Patrick A Heelan, ^Quantum Mechanics^, Marxism, Communism^ and Western Society, Vol 7, Herder & Herder, 1973, p 131. 1 * /bid., 15 Omelianovsky, cited in Patrick A Heelan, op. cit., p 131. 19 Omelianovsky, cited in Graham, op. cit., p 106. 17 D Blokhintsev, cited in Graham, op. cit,, p 93. 13 A A Tiapkin in Philosophical Problems of Quantum Mechanics, Mosow 1970, cited in Loren Graham, op. cit., p 108-109. 19 A A Tiapkin in Philosophical Problems of Elementary-Particle Physics, Progress Publishers, Moscow 1968, p 338. 2 o ^Natural Science and Dialectical Materialism: Looking at the Bankruptcy of Idealism and Metaphysics from the Development of Modern Physics51, Hong Qt No 9, 1965, p31. 21 VI Lenin, "Empirio-Criticism", Collected Works, Vol 14, Progress Publishers, Moscow 1968,p 314, a2 76tW.,p258, a8 /6tW,,pp3l2-3l3.