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> [The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives. Since the creation in 1960s and '70s of novel, justice-oriented fields, these incompatible worldviews have repelled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/the-button-down-empirical-and-deductive-fields-including-all-the-hard/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

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## More by Bret Weinstein

> [On a college campus, people should be equally free to be on campus, irrespective of their skin color.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/on-a-college-campus-people-should-be-equally-free-to-be-on-campus/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Evergreen is arguably the most radical college in the country - and while it does lean far to the left in a political sense,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/evergreen-is-arguably-the-most-radical-college-in-the-country-and/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/day-of-absence-is-a-tradition-at-evergreen/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [There was a time when the term liberal had been so thoroughly demonized by those on the right that I remember consciously choosing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/there-was-a-time-when-the-term-liberal-had-been-so-thoroughly/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/the-button-down-empirical-and-deductive-fields-including-all-the-hard/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [It is fair to say that the political duopoly we are forced to accept creates a set of problems that threaten the survival of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/it-is-fair-to-say-that-the-political-duopoly-we-are-forced-to-accept/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/terrorism-is-a-tactic-in-which-the-primary-objective-is-to-produce/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [If one's desire for change is an earnest desire to see things improve, then surely there is a state in which things have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/if-one-s-desire-for-change-is-an-earnest-desire-to-see-things-improve/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [What we do have is a system in which power tends to be awarded to people on the basis that they are corruptible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/what-we-do-have-is-a-system-in-which-power-tends-to-be-awarded-to/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [To women, Americans of color, and the citizens of the world, Donald Trump, if he is taken at his word, represents a threat to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/to-women-americans-of-color-and-the-citizens-of-the-world-donald/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [The idea that we should prioritize a racial viewpoint on, who knows, maybe even organic chemistry, over somebody who is adept at understanding how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/the-idea-that-we-should-prioritize-a-racial-viewpoint-on-who-knows/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [I hear many people talking as if the terms liberal, progressive and leftist refer to different factions, and that one might partner with one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/i-hear-many-people-talking-as-if-the-terms-liberal-progressive-and/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [For many reasons, the natural thing is for Americans to unify under some banner in order to regain power over the policymaking structure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/for-many-reasons-the-natural-thing-is-for-americans-to-unify-under/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Conservatives tend to be very skeptical of change. When something could be improved, they often get in the way of those improvements because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/conservatives-tend-to-be-very-skeptical-of-change-when-something/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Terrorists do not engage in terror attacks because they are strong. They engage in these attacks because they are weak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/terrorists-do-not-engage-in-terror-attacks-because-they-are-strong/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

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