The Great Wine Blight Quotes

“It must be remembered that this was 1868, before the biologists had had any great triumphs in the agricultural or medical fields. When Pasteur, a few years later, showed that the pebrine disease of silkworms could be controlled and that rabies could be cured scientists gained tremendous prestige and things were different. This attitude persisted until the 1940s, it tending to be held generally that a man who knew all about, say, compression physics was entitled to pontificate on politics, religion and anything else. After the explosion of the hydrogen bombs the world began to realize that outside their immediate field scientists could be as stupid as anyone else; inside it at times too.”
― George Ordish, The Great Wine Blight