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“In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.”
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“Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.”
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“Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.”
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“Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.”
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“Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.”
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“war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.”
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“Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.”
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“In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.”
