Degenerates Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“When power is discovered, man always turns to it," Bateson wrote darkly. "The science of heredity will soon provide power on stupendous scale; and…

— Siddharta Mukherjee

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

— Annie Besant

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

— Jane Austen

“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

— Chauncey Wright

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But…

— Jacob Bronowski

“As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome…

— David Mitchell

“But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. ”

— Gustave Flaubert

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society.”

— Mikhail Bakunin