People Being Smart

[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

Comments

[infiniteviking]

Hahahahahaha. That's brilliant on so many levels....

Reminds me of an astronaut story I read. After one of Wally Schirra's spaceflights, Robert Kennedy asked him about his 'political ambitions'. Schirra said something like this: "Well, I'm an engineer and a pilot, and I'm becoming something of a scientist. That is to say that my decisions are based on fact, and the transition to politics would be impossible."

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

HAHA! Perfect.