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🇺🇸John F. Kennedy

Politics

"For the unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

"If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

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🇮🇱Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Science

Neo-Kantianism

1903–1994

"The religion of halakhic practice is the religion of life itself."

"Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?"

"People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work."

"We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential."

"The overriding supremacy of the myth has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago . . . Nothing could be further from the truth."

"The more we can be with our own difficulty, our own pain, the easier it is to be with the pain and difficulties of others."

"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t."

"I am tired of hearing that the DNA in my cells nucleus is the complete blueprint of what is, or could be, me. There is more to me than that. The sequence of my nuclear DNA is not "My Genome."

"I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved."

"The future of medicine is safe in your hands."

"We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on."

"It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!"

"It is as though a puzzle could be put together simply by shaking its pieces."

"In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life. . . . Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life."

"The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war."

"In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was."

"Once a person acknowledges that they possess some form of privilege, they are more likely to accept the reality that they are not in any way objective about the form of marginalization in question"

"Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?"

"Kary Mullis: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Pantheon Books, New York, 1998"

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🇺🇸Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science

b. 1952

"In the current debate about immigration, it is worth noting that this award is yet another example of the numerous contributions that immigrants make to British society."

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