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Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest. ”
Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. ”
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ”
Boston is known for its innovation. ”
Fear is natural. Be with it. ”
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition. ”
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ”
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ”
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ”
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. ”