Scientific Corporations Might Well Become Almost Independent

In Science Men Have Learned Consciously To Subordinate Themselves To A Common Purpose Without Losing The Individuality Of Their Achievements. Each One Knows That His Work Depends On That Of His Predecessors And Colleagues, And That It Can Only Reach Its Fruition Through The Work Of His Successors. In Science Men Collaborate Not Because They Are Forced To By Superior Authority Or Because They Blindly Follow Some Chosen Leader, But Because They Realize That Only In This Willing Collaboration Can Each Man Find His Goal.

The Region Of The Mysterious Is Rapidly Shrinking.

Scientific Corporations Might Well Become Almost Independent States And Be Enabled To Undertake Their Largest Experiments Without Consulting The Outside World - A World Which Would Be Less And Less Able To Judge What The Experiments Were About.

Hunger And Sex Still Dominate The Primitive Mammalian Side Of Human Existence, But At The Present Time It Looks As If Humanity Were Within Sight Of Their Satisfaction. Permanent Plenty, No Longer A Utopian Dream, Awaits The Arrival Of Permanent Peace.

If Science Were Communism, Was It Also Not Possible That Communism Could Itself Become A Science?