“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.”

B.C. Vickery (1997) "Metatheory and information science," Journal of Documentation, 53(5), p. 460.

Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism <!-- p. 93 -->
Context: Generally speaking, one can say that motor intelligence contains the germs of completed reason. But it gives promise of more than reason pure and simple. From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad, but master of his destiny. Now, if there is intelligence in the schemas of motor adaptation, there is also the element of play. The intentionality peculiar to motor activity is not a search for truth but the pursuit of a result, whether objective or subjective; and to succeed is not to discover a truth.

Nobel Banquet Speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1967/porter-speech.html in Stockholm, December 10, 1967.

Source: Information Science in Theory and Practice (1987), p. 1; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).

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The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)

Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 241
Context: Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Interview The Hindu, 2014
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Section I, p. 5
Natural Law; or The Science of Justice (1882), Chapter I. The Science of Justice.