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At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

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In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

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[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

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Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

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Idealism is the highest form of reason.

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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

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It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists). . . despise utility. But because. . . useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

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