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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 Central Industry Of Modern Civilisation, Tending, Because Of Its Control Over Materials, To Spread Into And Ultimately Incorporate Older Industries Such As Mining, Smelting, Oil- Refining, Textiles, Rubber, Building, And Even Agriculture In Respect To Fertilizers And Food Processing.

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.

If Science Were Communism, Was It Also Not Possible That Communism Could Itself Become A Science?

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