trilogy of action for scientists [for `seekers of the larger view'.... while video loads] draw together pieces of science and technology to create a system whether that system is xerography, telegraphy or steam navigation. find the economic feasibility for a new technology by virtue of a wide grasp of the worlds of man and matter reach harmony through intuition by meditating on deep knowledge of the field so as to arrive at a new result build a model a simplified representation of the problem at issue, subject to experiemental analysis serve as a science-technologist generalist who, many times/yr, extracts the missing point out of a complicated situation make decisions or help others make decisions by imaginative interaction w/alternatives calculated as consequent on those decisions -- john archibald wheeler