Idealism Is The Highest Form

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.]

Young People Ask Me If This Country Is Serious About Science. They Aren't Thinking About The Passport That They Will Hold, But The Country That They Must Rely On For Support And Encouragement.

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.

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.

Idealism Is The Highest Form Of Reason.