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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

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There can be no truce between science and religion.

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I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

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To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

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The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

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And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: November 5th, 1892

Died: December 1st, 1964

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