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 who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size have no… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
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… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
