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Wyndham Lewis
(18 Nov 1882 - 7 Mar 1957)
British author and painter who led the Vorticist movement. He founded and edited the Vorticist review, Blast (1914). His books include the satire trilogy, The Human Age (1928).
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Science Quotes by Wyndham Lewis (3 quotes)
It is plainly the popularization of science that is responsible for the fever and instability apparent on all sides. To withhold knowledge from people, or to place unassimilable knowledge in their hands, are both equally effective, if you wish to render them helpless.
— Wyndham Lewis
In The Art of Being Ruled (1926), 423.
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.
— Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis: an Anthology of his Prose (1969), 170.
When we say “science” we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.
— Wyndham Lewis
'The Art of Being Ruled'. Revolution and Progress (1926), 4.
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) -- 
