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.
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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.
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
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.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.
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