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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

"Life is all about discovery."

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."

"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."

"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."

"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."

"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."

"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
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