"But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates."

-- Robert B. Laughlin

#Philosophy Quotes #Needs Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.”
“I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.”
“The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.”
“Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.”
“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.”
“I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.”
“In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.”
“I saw the suffering and I let myself feel itâ€¦ I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.”

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