It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than d…

- Lancelot Hogben

The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficult…

- Lancelot Hogben

Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic …

- Lancelot Hogben

With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in …

- Lancelot Hogben

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men wh…

- Lancelot Hogben

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

- Lancelot Hogben

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the n…

- Lancelot Hogben

Mathematics is the language of size.

- Lancelot Hogben

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

- Lancelot Hogben