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We Academic Scientists Move Within A Certain Sphere, We Can Go On Being Useless Up To A Point, In The Confidence That Sooner Or Later Some Use Will Be Found For Our Studies. The Mathematician, Of Course, Prides Himself On Being Totally Useless, But Usually Turns Out To Be The Most Useful Of The Lot. He Finds The Solution But He Is Not Interested In What The Problem Is: Sooner Or Later, Someone Will Find The Problem To Which His Solution Is The Answer.

As A Scientist Miss [rosalind] Franklin Was Distinguished By Extreme Clarity And Perfection In Everything She Undertook. Her Photographs Are Among The Most Beautiful X-ray Photographs Of Any Substance Ever Taken.

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.

We Are Still Too Close To The Birth Of The Universe To Be Certain About Its Death.

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.