"Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.”

Source : William Bateson, Gregor Mendel (1902). “Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence”
“I believe I can adapt to anything,”
“Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.”

Source : William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus
“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Source : Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986
“You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.”
“You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.”
“Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.”

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