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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.

Even In The World Of Molecules The Civilising Influence Of Modest Restraints Is A Cause For Rejoicing.

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 New Sense Of Shared International Responsibility Is Unmistakable In The Voices Of The United Nations And Its Agencies, And In The Civil Society Of Thousands Of Supra-national Ngos.

It Is Folly To Use As One's Guide In The Selection Of Fundamental Science The Criterion Of Utility. Not Because (scientists)... Despise Utility. But Because. .. Useful Outcomes Are Best Identified After The Making Of Discoveries, Rather Than Before.