But If Capitalism Had Built Up Science

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.

The Present Aristocracy Of Western Culture, At The Very Moment When It Most Clearly Dominates The World, Is Being Imitated Rapidly And Successfully In Every Eastern Country.

[in Eighteenth-century Britain] Engineers For The Most Began As Simple Workmen, Skilful And Ambitious But Usually Illiterate And Self-taught. They Were Either Millwrights Like Bramah, Mechanics Like Murdoch And George Stephenson, Or Smiths Like Newcomen And Maudslay.

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.

Her [rosalind Franklin] Devotion To Research Showed Itself At Its Finest In The Last Months Of Her Life. Although Stricken With An Illness Which She Knew Would Be Fatal, She Continued To Work Right Up To The End.