"Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently."

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Source : "Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change". Book by Robert B. Seidensticker, 2009.

Wernher von Braun

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“I really do hate to sing.”
“Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half.”
“Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.”
“Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.”
“I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.”
“Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves”
“Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichÃ©s about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be DONE TO, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.”

Source : "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.
“Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.”

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