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It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.
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Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened…
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Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset…
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In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing…
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That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.
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Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
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In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
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Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.
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Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
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I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.
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Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
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The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires…
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is…
— Noam Chomsky
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You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the…
— Charles Ruff
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
— Michael McKean
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The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
— Michael Crichton
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For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It…
— Padma Subrahmanyam
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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character…
— Stephen Covey
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Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
— George M. Whitesides
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I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
— Elizabeth Warren
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