"We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the phenomena of modern life, the great possibilities and dangers linked with the scientific-technical revolution and with a number of social tendencies demand precisely such an approach, as has been acknowledged in a number of official statements."

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Source : Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

Andrei Sakharov

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“An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.”
“All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”
“The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction”

Source : Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
“The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.”
“I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.”
“Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.”

Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315
“It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.”

Source : "Angie Stone: Soul on the Outside". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. August 16, 2012.
“Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?”

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