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A Part Of Sexuality May Go To Research, And A Much Larger Part Must Lead To Aesthetic Creation. The Art Of The Future Will, Because Of The Very Opportunities And Materials It Will Have At Its Command, Need An Infinitely Stronger Formative Impulse Than It Does Now.

But If Capitalism Had Built Up Science As A Productive Force, The Very Character Of The New Mode Of Production Was Serving To Make Capitalism Itself Unnecessary.

In Science Men Have Learned Consciously To Subordinate Themselves To A Common Purpose Without Losing The Individuality Of Their Achievements. Each One Knows That His Work Depends On That Of His Predecessors And Colleagues, And That It Can Only Reach Its Fruition Through The Work Of His Successors. In Science Men Collaborate Not Because They Are Forced To By Superior Authority Or Because They Blindly Follow Some Chosen Leader, But Because They Realize That Only In This Willing Collaboration Can Each Man Find His Goal.

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

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.