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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
— Diane Abbott
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Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry,…
— Leo Kadanoff
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
— William J. Clinton
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
— Martin Gardner
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What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To…
— Martin Filler
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Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or…
— James C. Collins
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But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
— Che Guevara
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