Science Is An Enterprise That Can Only

For Science Must Breathe The Oxygen Of Freedom.

I Knew, However, That It Would Cost Ten Times What I Had Available In Order To Build A Molecular Beam Machine. I Decided To Follow A Byway, Rather Than The Highway. It Is A Procedure I Have Subsequently Recommended To Beginning Scientists In This Country, Where Research Strategy Is Best Modelled On That Used By Wolfe At The Plains Of Abraham.

A Wise Man In China Asked His Gardener To Plant A Shrub. The Gardener Objected That It Only Flowered Once In A Hundred Years. "in That Case," Said The Wise Man, "plant It Immediately." [on The Importance Of Fundamental Research.]

[intellectual Courage Is] The Quality That Allows One To Believe In One's Judgement In The Face Of Disappointment And Widespread Skepticism. Intellectual Courage Is Even Rarer Than Physical Courage.

Discoveries That Are Anticipated Are Seldom The Most Valuable. ... It's The Scientist Free To Pilot His Vessel Across Hidden Shoals Into Open Seas Who Gives The Best Value.