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“A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.”
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“Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.”
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“Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.”
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“Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.”
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“I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely; for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation.”
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“You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.”
Source : "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003. 
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“Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.”
Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”
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“I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
