The Region Of The Mysterious

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

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 Relevance Of Marxism To Science Is That It Removes It From Its Imagined Position Of Complete Detachment And Shows It As A Part, But A Critically Important Part, Of Economy And Social Development.

Published Papers May Omit Important Steps And The Memory Of Men Of Science, Even The Greatest, Is Sadly Fallible.

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.