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"Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession."
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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."
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"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."
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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
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"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."
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"I've always liked men better than women."
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"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."
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"Men's vows are women's traitors!"
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."
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"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"
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"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."
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"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
Intelligence
"So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language."
Language
"Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public."
Society
"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."
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"No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry."
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"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
Feelings
"The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith."
Faith
"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
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"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."
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