Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There’s a garuda to get airborne.

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a...

There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that...

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about...