"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
-Edward Abbey
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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.“
-Edward Abbey
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
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"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
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-John Desmond Bernal
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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