I don't decry research. Some fine things are done.
Not nearly enough for the amount of money spent. Too
much machinery, too much administration, and not enough brains and intuition.
Research harbors a lot of second- and third-rate people.
The huge labs are what monasteries were before Henry
the VIII took the axe to them.
More humanism and less science – that's what
medicine needs. But humanism is hard work and a lot of science is just
Tinkertoy®.Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man
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