"The man who pays the piper always calls the tune"[1] "Today, thanks to applied science, a dictator with the gift of the gab is able to pour his emotionally charged evangel into the ears of tens of millions"[2] "reading newspapers and listening to the radio are psychological addictions"[3] "I see the better and I approve; but the worst is what I pursue"[4] "If offered the choice between liberty and security, most people would unhesitatingly vote for security"[5] "the dogma of inevitable progress became an unquestioned article of popular faith"[6] "the belief in all-round progress is based upon the wishful dream that one can get something for nothing"[7] "the most important lesson in history, it has been said, is that nobody ever learns history's lessons"[8] "denies the value of a human being as a human being… affirms exclusiveness, encourages vanity, pride and self-satisfaction, stimulates hatred"[9] "As Athens and Sparta died of idolatry and flag-waving and jingoism"[10] "advances in technology" .. "do not abolish the institution of war; they merely modify its manifestations"[11] "whenever some crisis makes us forget our surface rationality and idealism"[12] “.. to build enough launching ramps and robot planes..”[13] "when things go badly at home….

My own view, which is essentially that of the Decentralists, is that, so long as the results of pure science are applied for the purpose of mass-producing and mass-distributing industry more expensively elaborate and more highly specialized, there can be nothing but even greater centralization of power in even fewer hands.

[29]Confronted by the data of experience, men of science begin by leaving out of account all those aspects of the facts which do not lend themselves to measurement and to explanation in terms of antecedent causes rather than of purpose, intention and values.

Pragmatically they are justified in acting in this odd and extremely arbitrary way; for by concentrating exclusively on the measurable aspects of such elements of experience as can be explained in terms of a causal system they have been able to achieve a great and ever increasing control over the energies of nature.

But power is not the same thing as insight and, as a representation of reality, the scientific picture of the world is inadequate, for the simple reason that science does not even profess to deal with experience as a whole, but only with certain aspects of it in certain contexts.