Excerpt from The New Knowledge: A Popular Account of the New Physics and the New Chemistry in Their Relation to the New Theory of Matter
The historical method of treatment is the death of clear exposition. Consequently, I have given scant consideration to the evolution of the idea in time compared with its evolution from the standpoint of simplicity of apprehension. Furthermore, what a man "wants to know" is less the doer of the work than the work done. I have, therefore, made the workers incidental to their work. Nevertheless, these men represent the very elite of the army of science. It is doubtful whether in any other field of human effort there are to be found so many men of transcendent genius, magnificent training and splendid balance of judgment as are to be found in the science of radioactivity. It often happens in science that when a new Alaska is discovered there is a rush of "tenderfeet" to the district and it becomes difficult to extract from the mass of material presented the pure metal from the "fool's gold." This was notably the case with Rontgen's original discovery, but it has been equally not the case since radio-activity became a distinct science. These men are the pride of their universities; and their names and work will long hold out "against the wreckful siege of battering days."
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