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Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that’s not the reason we’re doing it. – Richard Feynman
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The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. – Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
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It is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on … Continue reading
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If academic research is not devoted to finding the truth, it is a form of propaganda, and not necessarily to be preferred to other forms, much cheaper and perhaps more persuasive. – Conrad Russell (Academic Freedom. London: Routledge. 1993)
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If they do that with marks and grades, should they be trusted with experimental data? – Harry Erwin, PhD