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“My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.”
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“There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
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“There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”
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“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.”
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“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth
-- more than ruin
-- more even than death....
Thought is subversive and revolutionary,
destructive and terrible,
thought is merciless to privilege,
established institutions,
and comfortable habit.
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.
Thought is great and swift and free,
the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
― Quotable Bertrand Russell
-- more than ruin
-- more even than death....
Thought is subversive and revolutionary,
destructive and terrible,
thought is merciless to privilege,
established institutions,
and comfortable habit.
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.
Thought is great and swift and free,
the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
― Quotable Bertrand Russell
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