"We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert."

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Source : "Atoms of Silence: an Exploration of Cosmic Evolution". Book by Hubert Reeves, 1984.

Hubert Reeves

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“Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.”
“In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.”
“Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.”
“Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?”
“The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.”
“Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.”

Source : Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.498, Penguin Books India
“Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.”

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