Socially Quotes (3 quotes)
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
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Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.
From Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action: Its Structure, Growth and Action (1987), 1.
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
From review titled 'Is Science Evil?' about the book The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power by Lewis Mumford, in New York Review of Books (19 Nov 1970).
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.
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