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You Cannot Have A Rational Discussion With A Man Who Prefers Shooting You To Being Convinced By You.

If We Are Not Prepared To Defend A Tolerant Society Against The Onslaught Of The Intolerant, Then The Tolerant Will Be Destroyed, And Tolerance With Them.

. . . It Seems To Me Certain That More People Are Killed Out Of Righteous Stupidity Than Out Of Wickedness.

No Particular Theory May Ever Be Regarded As Absolutely Certain.... No Scientific Theory Is Sacrosanct.

I Think That There Is Only One Way To Science - Or To Philosophy, For That Matter: To Meet A Problem, To See Its Beauty And Fall In Love With It; To Get Married To It And To Live With It Happily, Till Death Do Ye Part - Unless You Should Meet Another And Even More Fascinating Problem Or Unless, Indeed, You Should Obtain A Solution. But Even If You Do Obtain A Solution, You May Then Discover, To Your Delight, The Existence Of A Whole Family Of Enchanting, Though Perhaps Difficult, Problem Children, For Whose Welfare You May Work, With A Purpose, To The End Of Your Days.