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"The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity."
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"We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do."

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."

"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us."

"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."

"We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome."

"We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement."
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"But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met."


"Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters."


"Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore."


"I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart."


"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."


"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."


"You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens."


"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."
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