The Psychology Of A Complex Mind Must

The Region Of The Mysterious Is Rapidly Shrinking.

Pauling Was Shocked By The Freedom With Which The X-ray Crystallographers Of The Time, Including Particularly Astbury, Played With The Intimate Chemical Structure Of Their Models. They Seemed To Think That If The Atoms Were Arranged In The Right Order And About The Right Distance Apart, That Was All That Mattered, That No Further Restrictions Need To Be Put On Them.

We Will Have To Give Up Taking Things For Granted, Even The Apparently Simple Things.

A Part Of Sexuality May Go To Research, And A Much Larger Part Must Lead To Aesthetic Creation. The Art Of The Future Will, Because Of The Very Opportunities And Materials It Will Have At Its Command, Need An Infinitely Stronger Formative Impulse Than It Does Now.

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.