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"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

"State first, subject second, statesman last."
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"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art."


"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."


"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."


"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."


"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."


"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."


"The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms."


"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."
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