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“I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.”

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Ramsey Clark is an esteemed American lawyer, born on December 18, 1927. He is renowned in the American legal community for his contributions to civil rights, anti-war, and social justice issues. more

“As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on any human being. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas. She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes. But in the Vatican-we have only to recall the Inquisition-the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most Merciful are crimsoned. They have been steeped in blood!”

Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

“Basic scientific research is scientific capital.”

Science Research Accounts Scientific Research Basic Research

Book:Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

“Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.”

Ifs Want May Matter Science Lines Attention Progress Genius Accounts Management Misfortunes Be You Money Management

Book:Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

Source: Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

“Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.”

Believe Facts Seems Science Wonder Strange Accounts Madness Mad Former Ladders Newton Extravagant

Author:Victor Hugo

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