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SODDY FREDERICK: (1877-1956) English Radiochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1921. Typed ...
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SODDY FREDERICK: (1877-1956) English Radiochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1921. Typed Statement Signed, F Soddy, one page, 4to, Brighton, n.d. (c. May 1952). Soddy's statement is made in response to a question posed by a researcher investigating the future of science, the question handwritten at the head of the page, 'In a brilliant article entitled ''An Epoch in Science''
Jules Romains writes 'The exploration of the physical universe has no assignable limits; but it seems likely, however, that discoveries of the first order of magnitude will be limited in number. The future will rather have to content itself with prodigious achievements of secondary importance, now unforeseeable, and with applications (of discoveries already made). Pure science has already unlocked the most important secrets of the universe. Our era is not likely to be surpassed
' Is Jules Romains right? What is your opinion, from a chemical point of view?' Soddy responds, in full, 'I remember at the end of last century the brilliant inventors of phrases were saying much the same things but is it not obvious that what you want to know must in any case be a matter of guesswork? I certainly don't know what is going to happen in the future'. Rare. VG
