“Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.”

—  Jacque Fresco

Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 110.

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American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916–2017

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