Lancelot Hogben
(9 Dec 1895 - 22 Aug 1975)
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Science Quotes by Lancelot Hogben (4 quotes)
Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.
— Lancelot Hogben
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.
— Lancelot Hogben
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
— Lancelot Hogben
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
— Lancelot Hogben
See also:
- Lancelot Hogben: Scientific Humanist, by Lancelot Hogben. - book suggestion.