Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
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Modern democracy was no doubt the most wholesome and needed reaction against the abuses of absolutism and of a selfish, often corrupt, bureaucracy.
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
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