Science And Society Quotes

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Technology, Information Society

  "Bringing Science Back to Earth". Interview with Anne Kalosh, Hemispheres (the magazine of United Airlines), October 1994.

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  We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Knowledge

  "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Eugenics, People

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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• One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Stills, Courses

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• Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, School, Thinking

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• Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.

  Paola Antonelli

  Technology, Ideas, People

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• Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organizing forces of technological change ... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.

  Gordon S. Brown

  Art, Knowledge, Science

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• Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  School, Thinking, Acting

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• There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, War, Eugenics

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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• Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Character, Government

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.45, Routledge

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• The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, School, Army

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• Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Ideas, Impact

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• Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
  and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
  of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
  sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sheep, Practice, Differences

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.44, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eugenics, Black, Population

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, World Government, Class

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• I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Population, Birth Control, Opponents

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Play, Psychology

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.27, Routledge

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• I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of the relation between science and society that the scientist can appreciate better than anyone else, and if he does not insist on this significance no one else will, with the result that the relation of science to society will become warped, to the detriment of everybody.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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