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Sir Herbert Edward Read
(4 Dec 1893 - 12 Jun 1968)
English poet and critic who was a co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. He wrote books on art, and on the role of art in education.
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Science Quotes by Sir Herbert Edward Read (1 quote)
Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.
— Sir Herbert Edward Read
From The Grass Roots of Art: Lectures on the Social Aspects of Art in an Industrial Age (1955), 157. Collected in Herbert Read: Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism (1964), 357.
See also:
- Modern Sculpture: A Concise History, by Herbert Read. - book suggestion.
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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