
“Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.”
Lean Logic, (2016), p. 216, entry on Ingenuity Gap http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter One, A General View, p. 20
“Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.”
Lean Logic, (2016), p. 216, entry on Ingenuity Gap http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: Reason alone will not serve. Intuition alone can be improved by reason, but reason alone without intuition can easily lead the wrong way. They both are necessary. The way I like to put it is that when I have an intuition about something, I send it over to the reason department. Then after I've checked it out in the reason department, I send it back to the intuition department to make sure that it's still all right. That's how my mind works, and that's how I work. That's why I think that there is both an art and a science to what we do. The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.
“Religion has no more place in science than science has in religion.”
Answer from Pasteur to his disciple Elie Metchnikoff when was questioned whether his approach to spontaneous generation was bound to a religious ideal. According to Patrice Debré's Luis Pasteur, 2000 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RzOcl-FLw30C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false,, p. 176.
Disputed
Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb (1993)
Context: To have success in science, you need some luck.
But to succeed in science, you need a lot more than luck. And it's not enough to be smart — lots of people are very bright and get nowhere in life. In my view, you have to combine intelligence with a willingness not to follow conventions when they block your path forward.
What Can We Expect of the Moon?" in The American Legion Magazine, March 1965
General sources
On the decline of interest in science education among students
An Exclusive Interview with Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
"Self Portrait" (1968), reprinted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995), ed. Lawrence Sutin
“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”
Dijkstra (2000), "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1305.PDF (EWD 1305).
2000s