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.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

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

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.