"We can, for example, be fairly confident that……" — Noam Chomsky
"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will…
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend…
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves…
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
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Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species,…
— H. Bentley Glass
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However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or…
— Robert Koch
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial…
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It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only…
— Marjory Stephenson
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Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must…
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[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea…
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