The Future of Science. A Welcome Address

Back to the adventure science. The new in science, as I mentioned previously, is not only hard to reckon, but it is often inconstant and remarkably democratic. It blesses organized researchers at work at their desks and in the lab, after many pencils and much helium are used up, and it blesses the disorganized as well, for instance while shaving, jogging or making coffee. The new often comes unexpected, as an unwanted adventure, the good fortune of the undaunted. And it is in just this that the proper, lasting challenge of science and to scientists lies, namely in their supposed foolishness, which is the handmaiden both of truth and of tomorrow's utility.