my delicious loose ends
Genetic Engineering
“The geneticist Bentley Glass, in his address on becoming president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1970, argued that the ethical problem was not that people would embrace these new technologies but that they might reject them.” —The Code Breaker
Beauty
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. —Henri Poincaré, Science and Method, 1908
