Jerome Ravetz quotes
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“As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.”
-- Jerome RavetzSource : "The Merger of Knowledge With Power". Book by Jerome R. Ravetz, 1990.
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“Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.”
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“Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.”
-- Jerome Ravetz
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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