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“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about opinion. It is about evidence.”
― Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
― Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
“Nationalism, coupled with great faith in the power of the government to enact domestic bargains between labor and capital, has been seen before: it was called fascism then.”
― Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
― Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
“You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic.”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
“time always erodes advantage.”
― The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
― The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
“We tend to reduce everyone else to the limits of our own mental universe and begin privileging our own ethics, morality, sense of duty and even our sense of utility. All religious conflicts arose from this propensity to judge others. If we indeed must judge at all, argued Vivekananda, then it must be `according to his own ideal, and not by that of anyone else'. It was important, therefore, to learn to look at the duty of others through their own eyes and never judge the customs and observances of others through the prism of our own standards.”
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