A Plea for Science

摘要

When I was asked to write a contri- bution for this special issue, I decided to present some general thoughts about science which have preoccupied me for quite a while.'1' Science and technology on the nanometer scale is a very active topic worldwide, and this issue will certainly contain many interesting scientific contributions. I hope that my words might encourage interesting contributions and encourage scientists in the nanoworld to rethink what they are doing and how they are doing it from a slightly different, mind-cleaning, and less action-