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Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

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What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does some good.

Hope, Petitions, Science, Sen, Signatures, Stay
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If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.

Effort, Found, Likely, Making, Running, Trying

In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.

Complete, Real, Science, Scientific, War

On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. . . . It was at this time that the idea of the scientists' petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling and suggesting paragraphs. But it was Linus Pauling himself who contributed the simple prose of the petition that was much superior to any of the suggestions we were making.

1957, Ideas, Pauling, Present, Science, Simple

There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.

Against, Employment, Jobs, Mathematics, Silly, Teaching

I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back. . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!

Back, God, Ireland, Regret, Republican
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