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“Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
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“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Thoughts of a Biologist”
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Thoughts of a Biologist”
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“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
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“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”
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“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”
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“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”
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“On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
― Pensées d'un biologiste
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
― Pensées d'un biologiste
“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”
― Pensées d'un biologiste
― Pensées d'un biologiste
“To be an adult is to be alone.”
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“It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colours of the future.”
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“We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn’t wish to be.”
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“Uccidi un uomo e sei un assassino. Uccidine milioni e sei un conquistatore. Uccidili tutti e sei un Dio.”
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“Culture is not about having a brain full of dates, names, or numbers; it is the quality of judgment, logical rigor, appetite for evidence, awareness of the complexity of things and the difficulty of problems. It is the habit of doubt, discernment in skepticism, modesty of opinion, patience to ignore, and the certainty that we will never have the whole truth. It is having a firm mind without being rigid, being armed against vagueness as well as false precision, rejecting all fanaticisms—even those based on reason. It is to suspect official dogmas without giving advantage to charlatans, to venerate genius without making it an idol, and to always prefer what is rather than what one would prefer it to be.”
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“Uccidi un uomo e sei un assassino. Uccidine milioni e sei un conquistatore. Uccidili tutti e sei un Dio”
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“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know”
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