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“Einstein's iconoclasm and unyielding refusal of uncritically accept the common vision of the world are undoubtedly key to his achievements in theoretical physics. The theory of relativity could only have been invented by someone unafraid to reject centuries-old scientific assumptions. He was also remarkably courageous in opposing opponents far more powerful than himself—from the Nazis to the McCarthyites of America's Cold War era. Obrazoburstwo Einsteina i nieustępliwa odmowa bezkrytycznego przyjmowania powszechnej wizji świata są bez wątpienia kluczem do jego dokonań w dziedzinie fizyki teoretycznej. Teoria względności mogła zostać wymyślona tylko przez osobę, która nie bała się odrzucać wielowiekowych założeń naukowych. Był też niezwykle odważny przeciwstawianiu się przeciwnikom o wiele mocniejszych od siebie - od nazistów do makkartystów z czasów zimniej wojny w Ameryce.”

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“When I last spoke to Borlaug, a few years before he passed away, I asked him about the past criticisms. Critics, he said, never wanted to answer the counterfactual question: Where would the world be today if we had the same growth in population and affluence but none of the yield increases of the Green Revolution? Overuse of fertilizer, water-logging soils, loading up land with toxic salts from badly run irrigation schemes—these were real issues, he said. But wouldn't you rather have these for problems than the kind of hunger we had in 1968? He asked me if I had ever been to a place where most of the people weren't getting enough to eat. "Not just poor, but actually hungry all the time," he said. I told him that I hadn't been to such a place. "That's the point," he said. "When I was getting started, you couldn't avoid them.”

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“Just in the last two centuries, tuberculosis caused over a billion human deaths. One estimate, from Frank Ryan's "Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told", maintains that TB has killed around one in seven people who've ever lived. COVID-19 displaced tuberculosis as the world's deadliest infectious disease from 2020 through 2022, but in 2023, TB regained the status it has held for most of what we know of human history. Killing 1,2500,000 people, TB once again became our deadliest infection. What's different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s. We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in that world.”

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