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If they don't
depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than
gossips.
-- Penelope Fitzgerald
1916-, British Author
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are
looking for, for that which they are looking for is that
which is looking.
-- Keith Floyd
Furnished as
all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice
instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of
human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which
we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry
I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of
knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
The pace of
science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics
forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the
fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen
bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our
products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a
system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and
which makes man its appendix.
-- Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American
Psychologist
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Science rests
on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with
calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
-- James A. Froude
1818-1894, British Historian
The real
accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in
taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and
then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have
their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but
equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for
genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is
far more predictable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist
There is an
insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think
of any institution which features rhymed and singing
commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly
improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in
normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly
at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently
trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is
profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not
exist in its present form without it.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist
Science is
analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by
bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the
deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
-- Eric Gill
1882-1940, British Sculptor,
Engraver, Writer, Typographer
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