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“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.”

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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

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There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death,…

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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through…

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This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there…

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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

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