“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.