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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, tha

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. – John Charles Polanyi

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I hope Ive lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people. – Joshua Lederberg

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. Theres been an extraordinary advance. – Clifford Geertz

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Weapons of mass destruction arent pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. Theyre produced in factories. Theres science and technology involved. Theyre not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement. – Scott Ritter

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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. – Hans Eysenck

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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