Citations:scientocracy

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English citations of scientocracy

  • 1887, Florence Caddy, Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history[1], volume 1, page 294:
    His lesson in Hamburg had taught him that a novus homo must not be arrogant when he enters the society of the scientocracy, and that he must not run himself rashly against vested interests.
  • 1968, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Center occasional papers[2], volume 3, number 3, page 75:
    It could only appear through some dictatorial coup d'etat by a future scientocracy.
  • 1998, Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, A history of eastern Europe: crisis and change[3], page 642:
    The communist parties and regimes saw themselves as the ultimate secular scientocracies of the new age, the culmination of the drive to place Man (eventually, just one man!) in control of everything.
  • 2000, Charles Edgley, Dennis Brissett, A Nation of Meddlers[4], page 43:
    This uneasy sense of imminent doom and easy remedy is one of the reasons why Americans seem so mired in perpetual dissatisfaction, the roots of which he in the curious marriage of the prohibitionist spirit and the new scientocracies that govern our lives.