The ideal scientific mind should be capable of thinking out a point of abstract knowledge in the interval between its owner falling from a balloon and reaching the earth. Men of this strong fiber are needed to form the conquerors of nature and the bodyguard of truth.


The Poison Belt, Chapter III


The ideal scientific mind should be capable of thinking out a point of abstract knowledge in the interval between its owner falling from a balloon...

The ideal scientific mind should be capable of thinking out a point of abstract knowledge in the interval between its owner falling from a balloon...

The ideal scientific mind should be capable of thinking out a point of abstract knowledge in the interval between its owner falling from a balloon...

The ideal scientific mind should be capable of thinking out a point of abstract knowledge in the interval between its owner falling from a balloon...