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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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"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself."
Science
"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
"We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws."
Nature
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
Action
"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."
Science
"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."
Action
"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."
Men
"Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking."
Work
"The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline."
Values
"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
Mind
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