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Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
(11 Nov 1914 - 5 Dec 1997)
English physical chemist and administrator whose areas of research interest included chemical kinetics, photochemistry and radiation chemistry.
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Science Quotes by Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton (1 quote)
Accountants and second-rate business school jargon are in the ascendant. Costs, which rise rapidly, and are easily ascertained and comprehensible, now weigh more heavily in the scales than the unquantifiable and unpredictable values and future material progress. Perhaps science will only regain its lost primacy as peoples and government begin to recognize that sound scientific work is the only secure basis for the construction of policies to ensure the survival of Mankind without irreversible damage to Planet Earth.
— Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
In New Scientist, March 3, 1990.
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) -- 
