"We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it."
"Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has."
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Source: Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
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