His Security Depends on Building Weapons that will Destroy Him

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butcher




Science cannot stop while ethics catches up – and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. – Elvin Stackman



Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgement. – Lord Ritchie-Calder



One of the most pernicious falsehoods ever to be almost universally accepted is that the scientific method is the only reliable way to truth. – Richard H. Bube



In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. – Horace Walpole



The tragedy of scientific man is that he has found no way to guide his own. He has devised no weapon so terrible that he has not used it. He has guarded none so carefully that his enemies have not eventually obtained it and turned it against him. – His security today and tomorrow seems to depend on building weapons which will destroy him tomorrow. – Charles A Lindbergh

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Politicians are Hooked on a Drug called Power

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I have no political ambitions for myself or my children. – Joseph P. Kennedy



There is an increased demand for codes of ethics in politics, although most office holders are sworn in with their hand resting on one. – Bill Vaughan



A politician is one who likes what the majority likes. – Horace Walpole



A mugwump is one of those boys who always has his mug on the one side of the political fence and his wump on the other. – Albert J. Engel



Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters’ own money. – Richard J. Needham



It is a pity that more politicians are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. – Katherine Whitehorn



He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. – George Bernhard Shaw

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Try Biting Your Own Teeth

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Better to be ignorant of a matter than to half know it. – Publilius Syrus

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

It pays to be ignorant, for when you’re smart you already know it can’t be done. – Jeno F. Palucci

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – Horace Walpole

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination see in every object, only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson

The amount a person uses his imagination is inversely proportional to the amount of punishment he will receive for using it. -–Roger von Oech

A Tragedy for Those Who Feel

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The world is a vast temple dedicated to Discord. – Voltaire

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. – Frank Zappa

The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. – Horace Walpole

The world is a funny paper read backwards—and that way it isn’t so funny. – Tennessee Williams

If the world was a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. – Rita Mae Brown

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. – Aldous Huxley

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