Lancelot Hogben Quotes

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This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

Lancelot Hogben
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben
Science for the Citizen is...also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

Lancelot Hogben
Scientific knowledge is not a mere collection of facts. It is an organized repository of useful and fruitful facts.

Lancelot Hogben
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Cautious explorers do not cross the Atlantic of truth.

Lancelot Hogben
The history of mathematics is the mirror of civilization.

Lancelot Hogben
If the rules of mathematics are rules of grammar, there is no stupidity involved when we fail to see that a mathematical truth is obvious.

Lancelot Hogben
Acceptability of a statistically significant result of an experiment on animal behavior in contradistinction to a result which the investigator can repeat before a critical audience naturally promotes a high output of publication. Hence, the argument that the techniques work has a tempting appeal to young biologists.

Lancelot Hogben
The word statistics has at least six different meanings in current use, four in the context of statistical theory alone.

Lancelot Hogben
If mathematics is a game, there is no reason why people should play it if they do not want to. With football, it belongs to those amusements without which life would be endurable.

Lancelot Hogben