Research science must operate outside any realm of conventional morality. In science all ignorance is bad and all knowledge good. We were born into this world a long time ago, millions of years, Charles Darwin suggests. In the beginning we knew nothing of the forces surrounding us. But for all these millions of years the human brain has been chipping away at that ignorance, storing up hard-earned wisdom. This is the greatest adventure of mankind: to find sometlting that was never known before, or understood. Each new piece of knowledge does not need to have a specific or functional use, at least not at the moment. It is a sufficient triumph that we have learned something and proved it by documentation, that had formerly been part of the darkness.’
The Passions of the Mind: A Novel of Sigmund Freud
Irving Stone