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The very terminology of "pure" and "applied" science illustrates this form of the mind-body dichotomy in real life. The full name of almost any school or department of engineering is "school (or department) of engineering ''and applied science.''" And in fact, practical inventions rarely receive the highest honor that organized science can bestow, the [[Nobel Prize]], unless they have a [[medicine|medical]] application. Thus perhaps organized science discards the mind-body dichotomy when an invention might help save a life. For example, the award of the Nobel Prize in Biology to Solomon Bernson and Rosalind Yalow for their development of [[radioimmunoassay]] techniques was a rare event. Furthermore, such a practical invention in a field other than medicine will wait for years before it finds practical application. The [[laser]], for example, was first built in 1960 but did not find an out-of-the-laboratory application until 1965, when the [[Western Electric]] company first used lasers to pierce industrial [[diamond]]s.

The very terminology of "pure" and "applied" science illustrates this form of the mind-body dichotomy in real life. The full name of almost any school or department of engineering is "school (or department) of engineering ''and applied science.''" And in fact, practical inventions rarely receive the highest honor that organized science can bestow, the [[Nobel Prize]], unless they have a [[medicine|medical]] application. Thus perhaps organized science discards the mind-body dichotomy when an invention might help save a life. For example, the award of the Nobel Prize in Biology to Solomon Bernson and Rosalind Yalow for their development of [[radioimmunoassay]] techniques was a rare event. Furthermore, such a practical invention in a field other than medicine will wait for years before it finds practical application. The [[laser]], for example, was first built in 1960 but did not find an out-of-the-laboratory application until 1965, when the [[Western Electric]] company first used lasers to pierce industrial [[diamond]]s.

In sharp contrast, [[John Galt]] does breakthrough-quality work in the understanding of static electricity and then constructs a working device that will find immediate application. Furthermore, his laboratory is not in a university, nor in a government institution, but in a privately owned [[automobile]] engine factory.

In sharp contrast, [[John Galt]] does breakthrough-quality work in the understanding of static electricity and then constructs a working device that will find immediate application. Furthermore, his laboratory is not in a university, nor in a government institution, but in a privately owned [[automobile]] engine factory. After he calls his strike, John Galt sets up a one-man "think tank" that produces more such breakthrough-quality science and sells this, as a lecture series, to businessmen most likely to see how to make it work.

Robert Stadler's experience is even worse than a missed opportunity. Like John Galt, Robert Stadler does breakthrough-quality work, this time in the field of [[sound|sonic]] physics. But Stadler's work finds application, not in a practical device that will enhance human comfort, but in a [[weapon of mass destruction]], to wit, [[Project X]].

Robert Stadler's experience is even worse than a missed opportunity. Like John Galt, Robert Stadler does breakthrough-quality work, this time in the field of [[sound|sonic]] physics. But Stadler's work finds application, not in a practical device that will enhance human comfort, but in a [[weapon of mass destruction]], to wit, [[Project X]].