"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
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"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."
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"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
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"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
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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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