Jerome Ravetz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.
-- Jerome Ravetz

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Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.
-- Jerome Ravetz

#Beats #Racket
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.
-- Jerome Ravetz

#Reality #Imagination #Action

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Jerome Ravetz famous quotes

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