"# The trait that to me seems the most socially important about science, however, is that it is a major source of man's discontent with the status quo..."
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"Science, A Wellspring of Our Discontent", in The American Scholar (Summer 1967) pp. 252–58; as quoted in Richard F. Ericson, Organizational Cybernetics and Human Values (1969) p. 6
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Walter Orr Roberts
Walter Orr Roberts (August 20, 1915 – March 12, 1990) was an American astronomer and atmospheric physicist, as well as an educator, philanthropist, and builder. He founded the National Center for Atmospheric Research and took a personal research interest for many years in the study of influences of the Sun on weather and climate.
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