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# 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...

— Walter Orr Roberts

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Source: "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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