For Science Must Breathe The Oxygen Of

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.

At The Heart Of Science Lies Discovery Which Involves A Change In Worldview. Discovery In Science Is Possible Only In Societies Which Accord Their Citizens The Freedom To Pursue The Truth Where It May Lead And Which Therefore Have Respect For Different Paths To That Truth.

It Takes A Trained And Discerning Researcher To Keep The Goal In Sight, And To Detect Evidence Of The Creeping Progress Toward It.

Authority In Science Exists To Be Questioned, Since Heresy Is The Spring From Which New Ideas Flow.

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.]