Henry Taube

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.