Peter Medawar Quote

Nowadays we all give too much thought to the material blessings or evils that science has brought with it, and too little to its power to liberate us from the confinements of ignorance and superstition. The greatest liberation of thought achieved by the scientific revolution was to have given human beings a sense of future in this world.

The Art of the Soluble, Introduction (p. 15), Methuen & Company Ltd. 1967

Nowadays we all give too much thought to the material blessings or evils that science has brought with it, and too little to its power to liberate us ...

Nowadays we all give too much thought to the material blessings or evils that science has brought with it, and too little to its power to liberate us ...

Nowadays we all give too much thought to the material blessings or evils that science has brought with it, and too little to its power to liberate us ...

Nowadays we all give too much thought to the material blessings or evils that science has brought with it, and too little to its power to liberate us ...