We are living in an age that is witnessing fabulous discoveries in the physical sciences. We seem to be learning more of the innermost secrets of the structure and of the laws governing our physical universe. We stand on the threshold of an era of space exploration which only the wildest speculation could have imagined a mere generation ago. It is tragic that so many of the great advances in recent years have been incidental to or hastened by intensive search for more and more deadly offensive weapons of war or for increasingly effective means of defense against a possible enemy attack, but in any case these scientific discoveries could not have been made but for the expenditure of fantastically large sums of money, placed at the disposal of vast research organizations, staffed by persons educated to use appropriate techniques of investigation and to design and manipulate the intricate laboratory equipment needed in their research.