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"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."
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"FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty."
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"A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor."
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"In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march."
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"The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib."
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"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."
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"There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to."
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"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy."
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"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."
Art
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
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"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."
Men
"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
Mind
"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
Society
"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."
Life
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
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"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
Knowledge
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
Nature
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