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"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."
"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."
"Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently."
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
"Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines."
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"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science."
"Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality."
"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
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