"It Should be Stopped"

I dislike taking an entire blog posting and quoting it; I hope I can be forgiven. I see no need to amplify this remark with any comment on the history of intellectual achievement in senators from Pennsylvania.

"I am tired of all this thing called science. … We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped."

– Pennsylvania senator Simon Cameron, opposing funding for the Smithsonian Institution, 1861

[from Greg Ross, "Unquote", Futility Closet, 14 August 2009.]

Posted on August 14, 2009 at 16.17 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book, Laughing Matters

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