Jeff Lakin wrote:
> As technology grows and makes things easier to do, does that
> make us less likely to progress and strive for knowledge and
> further advancement in science and technology?

The original quote:
> "The fundamental contradiction of the scientific age might be the one
> between our eager embrace of the technological fruits of science, and our
> lazy rejection of the ways of thinking that made it all possible."
>
> - Art Hobson

I thought the original quote was referring to society, not scientists specifically. For example, society wants computers & such, but they also want to embrace alternative medicine; they'd like traditional doctors & scientists to shut up about how such things are dubious. Magnet therapy is my personal favorite technique to dislike...

--Eric