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WE live in an age of specialisation; in no era has the statement that “monomania is the secret of success” approached more closely to the truth. Business is an instinct, chemistry a science, and although it is conceivable that it is of advantage for the chemist to possess some business instinct, and for the business man to have some knowledge of chemistry, the combination in one person of acute business instinct and scientific genius is so rare as to be negligible. Both these great qualities are needed for the solution of our industrial problems—the nation lacks neither the one nor the other, but they reside in different individuals who possess entirely different types of mind. Co-ordination is the sole solution.
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THORPE, J. Chemistry and Industry . Nature 94, 679–680 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/094679a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/094679a0