Science, that was going to save the world in H. G. Wells' time, is regimented, strait-jacketed, scared shitless, its universal language diminished to one word, security.

— Jack Parsons, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005)

Quoted in George Pendle's 2005 biography of Parsons.

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