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Clarence E. Ayers
(6 May 1891 - 24 Jul 1972)
American economist, philosopher and social critic was the leading American institutionalist economist in the post–World War II era. His philosophical outlook appeared in innovative theories about the causes and significance of technological change, becoming known as a school of economics called institutionalism. His interests included anthropology, psychology, philosophy, education, and even music and art.
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Science Quotes by Clarence E. Ayers (2 quotes)
Each scientist of course maintains the “purity” of his own research and repudiates violently any proposal to subject his pet research to the test of immediate applicability and “usefulness.” It is not the object of his research to be useful but to be sound.
— Clarence E. Ayers
In Science: the False Messiah (1927), 35.
Science is the fairy god-mother of civilization.
— Clarence E. Ayers
In Science: the False Messiah (1927), 35.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
