It doesnt matter whether youre talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, hell always say Publish and be damned. – Jacob Bronowski
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. – Charles Babbage
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. – Ulrich Beck
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. – David Rittenhouse
