The Central Industry Of Modern Civilisation, Tending,

The Only Way Of Learning The Method Of Science Is The Long And Bitter Way Of Personal Experience.

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.

The Greater The Man, The More He Is Soaked In The Atmosphere Of His Time; Only Thus Can He Get A Wide Enough Grasp Of It To Be Able To Change Substantially The Pattern Of Knowledge And Action.

In My Own Field, X-ray Crystallography, We Used To Work Out The Structure Of Minerals By Various Dodges Which We Never Bothered To Write Down, We Just Used Them. Then Linus Pauling Came Along To The Laboratory, Saw What We Were Doing And Wrote Out What We Now Call Pauling's Rules. We Had All Been Using Pauling's Rules For About Three Or Four Years Before Pauling Told Us What The Rules Were.

We Are Still Too Close To The Birth Of The Universe To Be Certain About Its Death.