Popularization Quotes

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century. - Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. - Henri Bergson

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. - William G. Golding

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that. - Terry Eagleton