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"English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science."
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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."
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"Things remain paranormal, as long as we scientists don't reveal the underlying physical processes."
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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
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"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."
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"You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data."
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"The important concept of the solar wind is that Space is not empty. It is an energy and particle filled environment that interacts with whatever is in it! Astronomers call this 'Dark Energy'."
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"You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments."
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"The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures."
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"Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true."
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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
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"A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known."
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"No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism."
Language
"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."
Language
"A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves."
Age
"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."
Content
"Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population."
Time
"We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation."
Experience
"It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist."
Heart
"Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society."
Society
"Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science."
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