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"The distant observer, who has only the progress of empirical metal technology in mind, will perhaps ask about the usefulness of such work. But in science we are also pursuing a policy of the long term, and we are striving for a comprehensive theory through basic research, because it brings us closer to the highest goal of all science. It consists in predicting new things. For metallurgy, the possibility will then open up for the planned synthesis of metallic construction and materials with predetermined properties. In this way, however, all basic research ultimately becomes purpose research in the long term."

Eduard Zintl, scientific keynote lecture at the "Reichsarbeitstagung der Deutschen Chemiker", June 10, 1938 in Bayreuth. (This article was translated automatically)