“Boz, who had no patience with Science, always confused north and south.”
Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008) Novelist, short story writer, poet
Emancipation: A Romance of the Times to Come (1971)
“Science demands patience.”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, The Light of Other Days (2000), Ch. 6
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Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
As quoted in "WHAT HENDRIX NEVER SAID : They Don't Want to Know What He Really Said and Demand a Slacker Fantasy Instead" (22 March 2010) by Michael Fairchild, at rockprophecy.com; the author does not provide any sourcing for this statement, beyond his assertion that his authority and expertise should be trusted because: "I was assigned to compile all known quotes of Jimi Hendrix and edit this text into the "autobiography" of Jimi, in his own words. That book has been censored/suppressed by all world publishers for two decades now, but it's where I became familiar with Jimi's unique syntax, vernacular, and habits of thought."
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Context: There's so many tight-lipped ideas and laws around, and people put themselves in uniforms so tightly, that it's almost impossible to break out of that. Subconsciously, what these people are doing, they're killin' off all these little flashes they have, cutting off the idea of wanting to understand. They forgot, didn't believe, or just snuffed the feelings or thoughts off to continue with their crazy soul. They don't have the patience to really check out what's happenin' through music, theater and science. It’s like a spaceship. If a spaceship came down and you know nothin’ about it, the first thing you’re going to think about is shooting it. In other words, you get negative in the first place, which is not really the natural way of thinking. It’s like shooting at a flying saucer as it tries to land without giving the occupants a chance to identify themselves.
“Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.”
Vera Rubin (1928–2016) American astronomer
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters (1997), p. 219
David Ricardo (1772–1823) British political economist, broker and politician
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter XXX, Influence of Demand and Supply, p. 260
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist
A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 164.
In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1940s - 1950s, Theory of Experimental Inference (1948), p. 256; cited in Douglas, H.E. (2009) Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal
Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist
EESC <br class="br"> Kicking Ass for Her Generation': Applause for 16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg as EU Chief Pledges $1 Trillion to Curb Climate Threat, Julia Conley, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/21/kicking-ass-her-generation-applause-16-year-old-greta-thunberg-eu-chief-pledges-1Common Dreams (21 February 2019) <br class="br">2019
Robert K. Merton (1910–2003) American sociologist
Merton (1938) "Science and the Social Order". In: Philosophy of Science Vol 5, nr 3, p. 326