Scientific Corporations Might Well Become Almost Independent

The Very Bulk Of Scientific Publications Is Itself Delusive. It Is Of Very Unequal Value; A Large Proportion Of It, Possibly As Much As Three-quarters, Does Not Deserve To Be Published At All, And Is Only Published For Economic Considerations Which Have Nothing To Do With The Real Interests Of Science.

So Many Of The Chemical Reactions Occurring In Living Systems Have Been Shown To Be Catalytic Processes Occurring Isothermally On The Surface Of Specific Proteins, Referred To As Enzymes, That It Seems Fairly Safe To Assume That All Are Of This Nature And That The Proteins Are The Necessary Basis For Carrying Out The Processes That We Call Life.

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

As The Scene Of Life Would Be More The Cold Emptiness Of Space Than The Warm, Dense Atmosphere Of Planets, The Advantage Of Containing No Organic Material At All, So As To Be Independent Of Both These Conditions, Would Be Increasingly Felt.

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.