Lancelot Hogben Quotes

• No ha habido contribución más revolucionaria que la que hicieron los hindúes (indios) cuando inventaron el CERO.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Zero, India, Revolutionary

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• The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Block, Math, Emotional

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• This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Men, Age, Democracy

  Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue

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• With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Conocimiento, Responsabilidad, Ciencia

  Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1940). “Dangerous Thoughts”

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• There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Science, Daring, Caution

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• Mathematics is the language of size.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Size, Language, Mathematics

  "Mathematics for the Million". Book by Lancelot Hogben, 1937.

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• Los genetistas creen que los antropólogos han decidido qué es una raza. Los etnólogos suponen que sus clasificaciones encarnan principios que la ciencia genética ha demostrado que son correctos. Los políticos creen que sus prejuicios están avalados por las leyes genéticas y los descubrimientos de la antropología física.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Believe, Law, Race

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• It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'

  Lancelot Hogben

  Dark, Average, People

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• Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Numbers, Citizens, Growing

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