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.

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.

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

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

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

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.