The Region Of The Mysterious Is Rapidly

In England, More Than In Any Other Country, Science Is Felt Rather Than Thought. ... A Defect Of The English Is Their Almost Complete Lack Of Systematic Thinking. Science To Them Consists Of A Number Of Successful Raids Into The Unknown.

The Region Of The Mysterious Is Rapidly Shrinking.

Published Papers May Omit Important Steps And The Memory Of Men Of Science, Even The Greatest, Is Sadly Fallible.

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.

The Psychology Of A Complex Mind Must Differ Almost As Much From That Of A Simple, Mechanized Mind As Its Psychology Would From Ours; Because Something That Must Underlie And Perhaps Be Even Greater Than Sex Is Involved.