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"Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."
"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."
"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
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"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"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."
"The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly."
"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
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