Knowledge Is Not A Loose

Man Is A Singular Creature. He Has A Set Of Gifts Which Make Him Unique Among The Animals, So That Unlike Them, He Is Not A Figure In The Landscape, He Is The Shaper Of The Landscape.

It Doesn't Matter Whether You're Talking About Bombs Or The Intelligence Quotients Of One Race As Against Another If A Man Is A Scientist, Like Me, He'll Always Say Publish And Be Damned.

The Men Who Made The Industrial Revolution Are Usually Pictured As Hardfaced Businessmen With No Other Motive Than Self-interest. That Is Certainly Wrong. For One Thing, Many Of Them Were Inventors Who Had Come Into Business That Way.

The Force That Makes The Winter Grow Its Feathered Hexagons Of Snow , And Drives The Bee To Match At Home Their Calculated Honeycomb, Is Abacus And Rose Combined. An Icy Sweetness Fills My Mind , A Sense That Under Thing And Wing Lies, Taut Yet Living , Coiled, The Spring .

No Science Is Immune To The Infection Of Politics And The Corruption Of Power. ... The Time Has Come To Consider How We Might Bring About A Separation, As Complete As Possible, Between Science And Government In All Countries. I Call This The Disestablishment Of Science, In The Same Sense In Which The Churches Have Been Disestablished And Have Become Independent Of The State.