“For many things we can find substitutes, but there is not now, nor will there ever be, a substitute for creative thought.”
In Chemical and Engineering News, November 10, 1952, as quoted by Alan Tower Waterman in Research for National Defense, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 1953), Vol. 9, No. 2,ISSN 0096-3402, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., p. 39.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Crawford Greenewalt 2
American chemical engineer 1902–1993Related quotes
“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.332
Source: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Never, never let action become a substitute for thought.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 121 (originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction #114, January 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“We impacted upon the substitutions.”
28-Dec-2005, Radio Derby
The substitutions had an impact.
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
#17
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)