Scientific Corporations Might Well Become Almost Independent

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.

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.

Pauling Was Shocked By The Freedom With Which The X-ray Crystallographers Of The Time, Including Particularly Astbury, Played With The Intimate Chemical Structure Of Their Models. They Seemed To Think That If The Atoms Were Arranged In The Right Order And About The Right Distance Apart, That Was All That Mattered, That No Further Restrictions Need To Be Put On Them.

The Central Industry Of Modern Civilisation, Tending, Because Of Its Control Over Materials, To Spread Into And Ultimately Incorporate Older Industries Such As Mining, Smelting, Oil- Refining, Textiles, Rubber, Building, And Even Agriculture In Respect To Fertilizers And Food Processing.

It Is Characteristic Of Science That The Full Explanations Are Often Seized In Their Essence By The Percipient Scientist Long In Advance Of Any Possible Proof.