Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.