what science is up against

      Two people with different goals look to science for the answer. One perpetuates the other in circulating reference, where Dautry wants to ensure France’s military strength and the self-sufficiency of its energy production where Joliot wants to be the first in the world to produce controlled artificial nuclear fission in the laboratory. Here politics using one another to boost their reasons for supporting and empowering each other’s goal still persisting with their own needs. When finding a desire and when one can see a shared answer to the goal it allowed for science to survive. Now from the story of the boss making his appearances and assuring the public of the good his laboratory can do he can get the funding for his researchers. In the line “the pure scientists are like helpless nestlings while the adults are busy building the nest and feeding them” reminds me of penguins where the parents do so much as chews the food for their young. The boss is doing exactly that. He is the filter that has to be gone to allow for the raw science to exist. He is protecting the laboratory scientists as they are in isolation. “If you get inside a laboratory, you see no public relations, no politics, no ethical problems, no class struggle, no lawyers; you see science isolated from society from”.  The text also reference that science is like the heart of the body- without this vital muscle, the complexity of the veins, and all the systems which depend on each other you have no purpose, you have death.  An example of this system of science is the schematic where allies, colleagues, instruments, and public representation all come together to represent five links and knots that if just one of the “wheels” so to say is working insufficient the shape of the sequence becomes dysfunctional. Similarly to the body if one system is off the whole body suffers. The schematic looks very similar to the shape of a diamond. A stone that is precious and well respected. To a jeweler there is nothing worse than a flawed diamond. The beauty is in it perfection and the energy it provides with its symmetrical flow. As the boss makes his connections with his exhausting schedule he works to prefect the flow needed so the laboratory can produce hard science.