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In our time it has become all too easy to regard science as a vast impersonal force — a kind of Frankenstein's monster that, escaping human control, has forcibly seized us and carries us at terrifying speeds in directions we have not chosen towards ends unknown.

Kenneth S. Davis

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Kenneth S. Davis

Kenneth S. Davis

Born: September 29, 1912
Died: June 10, 1999 (aged 86)
Bio: Kenneth Sydney Davis was a historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D.
Known for:
  1. FDR, the New Deal years, 1933-1937 (1972)
  2. FDR: The War President, 1940-1943
  3. FDR: The New York Years (1985)
  4. FDR, into the storm, 1937-1940 (1993)
  5. Soldier of democracy (1945)

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