James Jeans Quote

For as the wind bloweth where it listeth, so no one can control the direction in which science will advance; the investigator in pure science does not know himself whether his researches will result in a mere labor-saving device or a new industry.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1934), The New World-Picture of Modern Physics (p. 98), Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 1935

For as the wind bloweth where it listeth, so no one can control the direction in which science will advance; the investigator in pure science does...

For as the wind bloweth where it listeth, so no one can control the direction in which science will advance; the investigator in pure science does...

For as the wind bloweth where it listeth, so no one can control the direction in which science will advance; the investigator in pure science does...

For as the wind bloweth where it listeth, so no one can control the direction in which science will advance; the investigator in pure science does...