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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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"The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."
People
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
Politics
"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
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
Irreverence
"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
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
Question
"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."
Nature
"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
Mind
"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."
Dissent
"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
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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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"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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"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy."
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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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"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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"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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"A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor."
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