As A Scientist Miss [rosalind] Franklin Was

The Recognition Of The Art That Informs All Pure Science Need Not Mean The Abandonment For It Of All Present Art, Rather It Will Mean The Completion Of The Transformation Of Art That Has Already Begun.

The Problem [of Specialization] Is Essentially That Of Communications To An Army In Action. After A Rapid Advance Communications Become Disorganized, And There Is A Temporary Halting Until They Are Again In Working Order.

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.

The Full Area Of Ignorance Is Not Mapped. We Are At Present Only Exploring The Fringes.

In England, More Than In Any Other Country, Science Is Felt Rather Than Thought. ... A Defect Of The English Is Their Almost Complete Lack Of Systematic Thinking. Science To Them Consists Of A Number Of Successful Raids Into The Unknown.