Alfred L. Kroeber Quote

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related — an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.


The Modern Temper, Chapter Three (p. 43), Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1929


Science has always promised two things not necessarily related — an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have...

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related — an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have...

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related — an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have...

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related — an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have...