The Full Area Of Ignorance

It Is Characteristic Of Science That The Full Explanations Are Often Seized In Their Essence By The Percipient Scientist Long In Advance Of Any Possible Proof.

The Relevance Of Marxism To Science Is That It Removes It From Its Imagined Position Of Complete Detachment And Shows It As A Part, But A Critically Important Part, Of Economy And Social Development.

The Beauty Of Life Is, Therefore, Geometrical Beauty Of A Type That Plato Would Have Much Appreciated.

[in Eighteenth-century Britain] Engineers For The Most Began As Simple Workmen, Skilful And Ambitious But Usually Illiterate And Self-taught. They Were Either Millwrights Like Bramah, Mechanics Like Murdoch And George Stephenson, Or Smiths Like Newcomen And Maudslay.

The Very Bulk Of Scientific Publications Is Itself Delusive. It Is Of Very Unequal Value; A Large Proportion Of It, Possibly As Much As Three-quarters, Does Not Deserve To Be Published At All, And Is Only Published For Economic Considerations Which Have Nothing To Do With The Real Interests Of Science.