John Ziman (1925–2005) New Zealand physicist
[John M. Ziman, The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 0-521-09917-X, 119]
“The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.”
— Aldo Leopold, book A Sand County Almanac
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 205.
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