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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."

"I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing."

"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
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"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."

"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war."

"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one."

"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."

"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
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