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As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject. ↗

— David Douglass

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One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

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Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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Truth in science is always determined from observational facts. ↗

— David Douglass

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There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. ↗

— Rene Dubos

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The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us. ↗

— Dorothy Day

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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