“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
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“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But "no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb
“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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