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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
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"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."
"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
"For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race."
"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
"As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed."
"Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
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"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."
"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."
"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."
"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art."
"Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins."
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
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