The Relevance Of Marxism To Science Is

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

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.

The Question Of The Origin Of Life Is Essentially Speculative. We Have To Construct, By Straightforward Thinking On The Basis Of Very Few Factual Observations, A Plausible And Self-consistent Picture Of A Process Which Must Have Occurred Before Any Of The Forms Which Are Known To Us In The Fossil Record Could Have Existed.

As The Scene Of Life Would Be More The Cold Emptiness Of Space Than The Warm, Dense Atmosphere Of Planets, The Advantage Of Containing No Organic Material At All, So As To Be Independent Of Both These Conditions, Would Be Increasingly Felt.

So Many Of The Chemical Reactions Occurring In Living Systems Have Been Shown To Be Catalytic Processes Occurring Isothermally On The Surface Of Specific Proteins, Referred To As Enzymes, That It Seems Fairly Safe To Assume That All Are Of This Nature And That The Proteins Are The Necessary Basis For Carrying Out The Processes That We Call Life.