They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.” “Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. #Giving Up #Simple #Taking Things For Granted “We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.” The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.” “A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.” “Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. “Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.”
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