
Broadcast to the Nation, 12 November 1984
Extracts from Speeches
"Discovering Darwin", Proceedings of the International Anti-Vivisection and Animal Protection congress, held at Washington, D.C. December 8th to 11th, 1913 (1913), p. 156
Broadcast to the Nation, 12 November 1984
Extracts from Speeches
Introductory p.1
A Budget of Paradoxes (1872)
Source: "Some comments on systems and system theory," (1986), p. 1
in Impact of Advances in science and new technologies on society http://www.here-now4u.de/eng/impact_of_advances_in_science_.htm, 1998.
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter VIII, p. 721.
Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II
Source: "Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Long Wall Method of Coal-Getting", 1951, p. 5
Talk titled "American Foreign Policy" at Harvard University, March 19, 1985; Republished at chomsky.info/talks http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm, accessed May 23, 2014.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937) by E.H. Carr, p. 175
Introduction
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
Context: Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them. 'Tis easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself.