Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. - Gerald Holton
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
- Gerald Holton
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all thi… - Gerald Holton
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all thi…
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental … - Gerald Holton
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental …
Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in… - Gerald Holton
Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in…
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turm… - Gerald Holton
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turm…
Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all. - Gerald Holton
Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.
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