So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?