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“While I've never read Scientific American, I'll bet it is pretty scientific. And American. Just like those prehistoric cave drawings in the south of…

— Jarod Kintz

“Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal…

— Walter A. McDougall

“The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.”

— 1975 Chicago Tribune

“They had been double-crossed in the act of double-crossing, which was probably what they should have expected from the start, especially knowing that the…

— Michael McBride

“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would…

— Bill Bryson

“But of course it was an American paper. The Americans always go one better on any kinds of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda,…

— George Orwell

“America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating…

— William R. Forstchen

“They all knew the dangers back then. They had some really good scientists and chemists. But you didn’t have the regulations,”

— Jane Mayer

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

— Charles Colson

“THE trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their…

— George Mikes

“It was America, after all. The sort of place where you should be allowed to walk as high as you wanted. But what if…

— Colum McCann

“Your scientists were so caught up up in wether they could or not, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

— Jurassic Park