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"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
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"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one."
"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."
"I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive."
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."
"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war."
"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."
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