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Frank Knight

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

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Frank Knight

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

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Norman Podhoretz

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

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Paul Feyerabend

Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge.

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Paul Feyerabend

Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.

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Paul Feyerabend

The progress of science, of good science, depends on novel ideas and on intellectual freedom: science has very often been advanced by outsiders (remember that Bohr and Einstein regarded themselves as outsiders).

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George Washington

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

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Delphine de Girardin

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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Delphine de Girardin

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

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Joseph Hiam Levy

Socialism is essentially inimical to family life, which it regards as a bourgeois institution – to use its own favorite anathema. Socialism would make motherhood a State business or profession, would pay women for this sexual function, and deprive fathers of all status or recognition.