We Will Have To Give Up Taking

Her [rosalind Franklin] Devotion To Research Showed Itself At Its Finest In The Last Months Of Her Life. Although Stricken With An Illness Which She Knew Would Be Fatal, She Continued To Work Right Up To The End.

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.

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.

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