"Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations."

-- David H. Hubel

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“There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.”
“I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a goodâ€”a positive good. . . . I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.”
“Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.”
“I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.”
“Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunterâ€™s home.”
“The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.”
“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.”
“Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.”

Source : "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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