Hunger And Sex Still Dominate The Primitive

The Relevance Of Marxism To Science Is That It Removes It From Its Imagined Position Of Complete Detachment And Shows It As A Part, But A Critically Important Part, Of Economy And Social Development.

The Human Mind Evolved Always In The Company Of The Human Body, And Of The Animal Body Before It Was Human. The Intricate Connections Of Mind And Body Must Exceed Our Imagination, As From Our Point Of View We Are Peculiarly Prevented From Observing Them.

We Academic Scientists Move Within A Certain Sphere, We Can Go On Being Useless Up To A Point, In The Confidence That Sooner Or Later Some Use Will Be Found For Our Studies. The Mathematician, Of Course, Prides Himself On Being Totally Useless, But Usually Turns Out To Be The Most Useful Of The Lot. He Finds The Solution But He Is Not Interested In What The Problem Is: Sooner Or Later, Someone Will Find The Problem To Which His Solution Is The Answer.

One Of The Questions On Which Clarity Of Thinking Is Now Most Necessary Is That Of The Relation Between The Methods Of Science And Of Marxist Philosophy. Although Much Has Already Been Written On The Subject, Yet There Is Still An Enormous Amount Of Confusion And Contradictory Statement.

[in Eighteenth-century Britain] Engineers For The Most Began As Simple Workmen, Skilful And Ambitious But Usually Illiterate And Self-taught. They Were Either Millwrights Like Bramah, Mechanics Like Murdoch And George Stephenson, Or Smiths Like Newcomen And Maudslay.