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Paul Goodman
(9 Sep 1911 - 2 Aug 1972)
American writer who was a prolific writer of essays, fiction, plays, and poetry. He wrote short stories from 1932, and published his first novel, The Grand Piano, in 1942. His fields for his later books included city planning, Gestalt therapy, literary criticism, and politics.
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Science Quotes by Paul Goodman (1 quote)
Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of Science. It aims at prudent goods for the comnonweal and to provide efficient means for these goods … philosopher, a technician should be able to criticize the programs given him (or her) to implement.
— Paul Goodman
In 'Can Technology Be Humane?', New York Review of Books (20 Nov 1969),
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) -- 
