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"The space scientists, of the successful bidders for space contracts, are given the problem of how to develop the space dwelling. They are not design scientists-- they are subjective scientists. Design science must be objective.
“Scientists are inherently subjective operators. They are trained to make faithful observations and to theorize about the schemes of nature into which their data may fit, but not to consider the significance of their findings as objectively employable. They are too specialized to comprehend complex integration potentials and industrial realizations… Alone among scientists, the medical man is objective. Chemical engineers but not chemists are objective. I have been amazed when I have been called in by the big corporations as a consultant to discover how little they understand of what seems to me to be proper statement of the scientific, structural, chemical, and mechanical, aspects of the scientific sky-dwelling problem and its implications for man on Earth. The problem is to reduce the dimensions of the ecological pattern from a vast tree-air-Earth-worm-bird-bee-rain-wind relay system to a three-foot diameter, closed-circuit system by which man is able”
