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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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We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care…
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Never was a gimmick, the realest in it, come bear witness. And I see them rappers is actors, boy, they so Robin…
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