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It is not the neutrality of stone that we should seek, but the engagement of fire — which warms and illuminates and also, if we are careless, burns. Safety, for one who truly thinks, is the beginning of death.
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)

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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to wade into its waters.

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Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Every important scientific advance has had to fight its way to acceptance against the prejudice of its age — and the prejudice of its age is simply the common sense of its age.

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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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