People Being Smart
Nov. 4th, 2005 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealin'...But in today's politics, changing your mind in response to new evidence is seen as a weakness. When he was Vice-Chancellor at Warwick University, the biologist Sir Brian Follett remarked: "I don't like scientists on my committees. You don't know where they'll stand on any issue. Give them some more data, and they'll change their minds!"'
The Science of Discworld III, pg 299
