Becomes Quote by John Desmond Bernal

“As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.”

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The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

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