If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“The power of the deductive network produced in physics has been illustrated in a delightful article by Victor F. Weisskopf. He begins by taking the magnitudes of six physical constants known by measurement: the mass of the proton, the mass and electric charge of the electron, the light velocity, Newton's gravitational constant, and the quantum of action of Planck. He… — Gerald Holton Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application it works… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
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