The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
Jared Diamond
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What makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
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Science is often misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. Actually science is something broader the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.
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