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Jonah Cohen

Outreach & Public Programs Manager

Science Center of Connecticut

 

"Everybody knows the end products of scientific investigation because
everybody uses them, but few know the stages by which these end products
have developed. Many see only what is on top. They accept, for example, the
blessings of our knowledge of germs as the chief source of disease; they use
a large variety of chemical compounds without knowing the meaning of
chemistry; they admire skyscrapers, great bridges and other complicated
structures not knowing how Galilieo laid the firm foundation of the laws of
forces without which these structures could not be safely erected. There are
millions of otherwise intelligent people whose outlook on the world is
essentially that of the Middle Ages. A large number confuse science and
pseudo-science and are easy game for all kinds of quackery purporting to
cure bodily ills. The people of a sovereign state attempt to settle by
referendum the question of whether man is a product of organic evolution;
for them to attempt a popular verdict on the Einstein theory would be no
less absurd."

          -Scientific American, July, 1929

 


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