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Although Knowledge Of How Things Work Is Sufficient To Allow Manipulation Of Nature, What Humans Really Want To Know Is Why Things Work. Children Don't Ask How The Sky Is Blue. They Ask Why The Sky Is Blue.

Cure The Symptoms, Cure The Disease.

That Is The Danger We Now Face. And This Is Why The Intermixing Of Science And Politics Is A Bad Combination, With A Bad History. We Must Remember The History, And Be Certain That What We Present To The World As Knowledge Is Disinterested And Honest.

The Nasty Little Apes That Call Themselves Human Beings Can Do Nothing Except Run And Hide.

Scientific Research Was Much Like Prospecting: You Went Out And You Hunted, Armed With Your Maps And Instruments, But In The Ened Your Preparations Did Not Matter, Or Even Your Intuition. You Needed Your Luck, And Whatever Benefits Accrued To The Diligent, Through Sheer, Grinding Hard Work.