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...Absolute zero, the theoretical temperature at which molecular motion in all gases ceases...
...still being felt. Heisenberg has recently used it to argue against constructing even bigger (and more expensive) atom smashers on the ground that little more of a fundamental nature can be learned of the sub-nuclear world. In his controversial book The Coming of the Gold en Age, Molecular Biologist Gunther Stent brashly assumes that all basic questions in his field are either solved or close to solution. He also thinks that all scientific progress is fast approaching the point of diminishing returns. Man will never know how the universe began or what is the most fundamental of atomic particles...
...brief experience in medical school, I must admit that Harvard's notorious organic chemistry course helped me understand some of the mechanisms and basic principles of biochemistry. Biochemistry, in turn, is important because medical science is exploring with increasing success the processes of life and of disease on a molecular level. To know what lab tests to order, how to interpret their results, and to be able to understand the relevant literature in clinical medicine, an elementary knowledge of biochemistry is important...
...What worries scientists is the obvious dangers in any policy, however well intended, that aims at short-term practical and political benefits at the expense of more fundamental research. Nixon's war on cancer, for instance, would not have been possible without the vital groundwork laid by many molecular biologists who spent long, wearying hours in the lab unraveling the structure and workings of the DNA and RNA molecules. They did their work with no concern other than a desire to add to man's store of knowledge. To a large degree, the U.S. was able to muster...
Already Harvard's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is collaborating with the Hanoi Faculty of Medicine in research into the relationship between dioxide (present in defoliants) and liver cancer. Whatever the State Department may think, there ought to be academic exchanges between Cambridge and Hanoi. I hope that Harvard will take the initiative. David Derrance...