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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back read more
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the read more
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
