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Dissent Is The Native Activity Of The Scientist, And It Has Got Him Into A Good Deal Of Trouble In The Last Years. But If That Is Cut Off, What Is Left Will Not Be A Scientist. And I Doubt Whether It Will Be A Man.

The Richness Of Human Life Is That We Have Many Lives, We Live The Events That Do Not Happen (and Some That Cannot) As Vividly As Those That Do, And If Thereby We Die A Thousand Deaths, That Is The Price We Pay...

Man Is Not The Most Majestic Of The Creatures; Long Before The Mammals Even, The Dinosaurs Were Far More Splendid. But He Has What No Other Animal Possesses: A Jigsaw Of Faculties, Which Alone, Over Three Thousand Million Years Of Life, Made Him Creative. Every Animal Leaves Traces Of What He Was. Man Alone Leaves Traces Of What He Created.

Man Is A Singular Creature. He Has A Set Of Gifts Which Make Him Unique Among The Animals, So That Unlike Them, He Is Not A Figure In The Landscape, He Is The Shaper Of The Landscape.

Dissent Is The Mark Of Freedom, As Originality Is The Mark Of Independence Of Mind. … No One Can Be A Scientist … If He Does Not Have Independence Of Observation And Of Thought.