I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

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If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

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