“The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.” ThinkingHumansMayLittlesPersonsHas BeensFactsActionScienceThreeTaughtScientistMovedGreedFearlessDreadCreedsIncentivesEffectivenessExaminingClassificationHuman Actions Author:Robert Watson-Watt
“[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.” BelieveMayFactsBodyScienceKnownKnowledgeIntellectualOrganizationScientistSatisfactionConsiderationBad ThingsDominantAcquisition Author:Robert Watson-Watt
