René Dubos Quote

Despite all the new powers of science, or perhaps because of them, man is no longer able to achieve real mastery over his environment.


In: Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler, The Great Ideas Today 1964, Biological Sciences and Medicine (p. 267)


Despite all the new powers of science, or perhaps because of them, man is no longer able to achieve real mastery over his environment.

Despite all the new powers of science, or perhaps because of them, man is no longer able to achieve real mastery over his environment.

Despite all the new powers of science, or perhaps because of them, man is no longer able to achieve real mastery over his environment.

Despite all the new powers of science, or perhaps because of them, man is no longer able to achieve real mastery over his environment.