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"One finds limits by pushing them."
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"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
"It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be."
"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
"You cannot force a dry well to yield water."
"Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them."
"I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself."
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
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"The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful."
"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."
"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."
"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."
"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it."
"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds."
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