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The Suppression of Unorthodox Science 185
month is already a very high holy man and should be accorded deep
veneration.
How much less can we expect of our modern day Western scientist
How often, even in a single day, does he (most of them being men, but this
applies also to women), think of the path of the electron, or the structure
of DNA, or the classification of all finite groups, or the hibernation of
grizzly bears, without at least one reflection on how much money it can
make him, or how many conferences he can travel to with it, or how much
flattery his colleagues will give him, or how big his pension is going to
be, or how handsome he will look in that photograph in the Encyclopedia
Brittanica of the year 2024, or how much closer he is to the Nobel Prize,
or how much better his theory is than that of the x, y, z group over in
Illinois, or how his children will look up to him, or how bored his wife
will be when he explains it to her, or how, even though it has little about
it that appears useful in any way, somebody might just, in two hundred
years, discover a practical application that will eventually earn him
posthumous praise as a benefactor of Mankind.
Of such does the purity of Science consist. It has about the same rating
as the purity of the monks in the medieval monasteries, of which we have
read so many accounts. We see indeed that the "Credo of Science" is nothing
but a long list of delusions on a par with the parting of the Red Sea,
the immortal snakes of the Polynesian islands, the bodily ascension of
Elijah, the material Ascension of the Virgin, the rebirth of Quetzacoatl, the
immortality of the Pharoahs [sic], and the like. It is therefore hardly surprising
that the scientific community (apart from the many individual
exceptions), has contributed nothing to the advance of civilization beyond
its barbarian precursors.