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Quote by Walter Lippmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the reject

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann

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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. – Walter Lippmann

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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. – Walter Lippmann

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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. – Walter Lippmann

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If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. – Malcolm Turnbull

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Ive started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and weve got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. Its for NBC, its called Afterthought, and its science fiction-ish. Thats fun. – Melissa Rosenberg

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That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables. – Tony Snow

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