New ideas, invention, and creativity in general, always spearhead a kind of freedom—a breaking out from hobbling constraints. Freedom is a prerequisite for continuing the delicate experiment of science—which is one reason the Soviet Union could not remain a totalitarian state and be technologically competitive. At the same time, science—or rather its delicate mix of openness and skepticism, and its encouragement of diversity and debate—is a prerequisite for continuing the delicate experiment of freedom in an industrial and highly technological society.
