The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman (1956) |
| Jane Alexander, Actress (1939) |
| Charlie Daniels, Musician (1936) |
| Carl Davis, Composer (1936) |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay, Poet (1925) |
| Bill Gates, Businessman (1955) |
| Jami Gertz, Actress (1965) |
| Ben Harper, Musician (1969) |
| Bruce Jenner, Athlete (1949) |
| Elsa Lanchester, Actress (1902) |
| Abigail Adams, First Lady (1818) |
| Alphonse Allais, Writer (1905) |
| Georges Carpentier, Athlete (1975) |
| Alexander John Ellis, Writer (1890) |


