It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
