Don K. Price Quotes

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Only if a nation can induce scientists to play an active role in government, and politicians to take a sympathetic interest in science (or at least in scientific institutions) can it [the nation] enlarge its range of positive freedom, and renew its confidence that science can contribute progressively to the welfare of mankind.

Don K. Price

It has begun to seem evident to a great many administrators and politicians that science had become something very close to an establishment, in the old and proper sense of that word: a set of institutions supported by tax funds but largely on faith and without direct responsibility to political control.

Don K. Price

All sciences are considered by their professors as equally significant; by the politicians, as equally incomprehensible; and by the military as equally expensive.

Don K. Price

Don K. Price

Don K. Price

Born: January 23, 1910

Died: July 9, 1995 (aged 85)

Bio: Don Krasher Price was an American political scientist who served as the founding dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1958 to 1976. He wrote a number of books about United States history and government.

Known for:

The scientific estate (1965)
Government and science (1954)

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