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By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .

Source: The Sense of Human Dignity, lecture, 19 Mar 1953, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
-- Jacob Bronowski, (Jan 18 1908-1974), English historian, mathematician; He was a writer on science and human value who developed the TV series The Ascent of Man, 1973.

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