"The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market."

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Source : Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press

Daniel S. Greenberg

#Community Quotes #Ascent Quotes #Nouveau Riche Quotes

“I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.”
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”
“(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.”
“It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.”
“The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.”
“Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.”
“I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.”

Source : "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.
“It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.”

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