Ocupation: Historian
Life: October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990
Birthday: October 19
Death: January 26
To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.
source: Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”
topic: Government, Collaboration, Investment, Capital Investment