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The real poet, like any artist, tries all the time to see the general in the particular. In this he is no different from the scientist. They are siblings under the skin.

Robin Fox

The point that science can be used for evil purposes is beside the point. Art and music can be used for evil purposes, but no one proposes abandoning either. Anything can be used for evil purposes. I am not going to stop listening to Wagner just because Hitler liked him.

Robin Fox

Scientists, being children of Adam, can be fools and charlatans or even just blind and biased. Indeed, my own despair at the "academic/scientific enterprise" which raised the initial question is a despair over the inevitability of human frailty, not over the ideals of scientific discovery.

Robin Fox

The conduct of science can lead to boring triviality. Even great results can be used to evil ends.

Robin Fox

Since science has no value agenda of its own it is always subject to hijacking by fanaticism and idealism.

Robin Fox

Robin Fox

Robin Fox

Born: July 15, 1934

Died: January 18, 2024 (aged 89)

Bio: Robin Fox was an Anglo-American anthropologist who wrote on the topics of incest avoidance, marriage systems, human and primate kinship systems, evolutionary anthropology, sociology and the history of ideas in the social sciences.

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