Carolina QuotesAlso, science and technology constitute a power mass movement, and many scientists gratify their need for power through identification with this mass movement. Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"The Motives of Scientists", paragraphs 91-92
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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