As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.
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Essential oils are extremely important to me.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.
Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.
Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.
We can create new food substances.
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