Gerald Holton Quotes
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To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things…
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The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil…
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If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question…
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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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…
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