While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.
Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.