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.


The Cautionary Scientists: Priestley, Lavoisier, and the Founding of, Modern Chemistry, Introduction (p. 7), Putnam. 1966

Kenneth S. Davis Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...