Derek J De Solla Price Inspirational Quotes (2)

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.

It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.