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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” — Carl Sagan

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.” — George Eliot

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“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.” — Richard Dawkins

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“It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.” — Fred Woodworth

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“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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