ABSTRACT

In forecasting the future of scientific research there is one quite general law to be noted. The unexpected always happens. So one can be quite sure that the future makes any details predictions look rather silly. At present much of biology is in the stage of measuring and waiting for the idea. One man is measuring the lengths of the feelers of 2000 beetles; another amount of cholesterol in 100 samples of human blood; each in the hope. The chapter review for biologists of present and future methods. Gravitation will account for chemical affinity, as was once believed, and then biologists have a bigger job before them than many of them think. Taking the biophysicists first, a whole new field has been opened up by recent work on radiation. When X-rays were first applied to living tissues, it was very difficult to get the same result twice running.