To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . The Ascent of Man.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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