 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
A great many very important and very useful activities which have hitherto been carried out by individuals without the help of an organization are coming more and more to depend upon organizations. The great men of science of the past didn't depend on very expensive apparatus -- great men like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin. ... But take a modern astronomer. I met a very eminent astronomer of the present day, and his work, which is very useful, depends entirely upon very powerful telescopes, which had been contributed by a very rich man. He was only able to do his work because he was on good terms with certain very rich men.
Source: Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, 1960, chapter 10: The role of the individual, p.107
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