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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.


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The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.



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My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.



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In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.





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