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We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.


Robert J. McCracken

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ROBERT J. SAWYER There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scienti...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps t...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes...
ROBERT J. SHILLER When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge rese...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
ROBERT J. FLAHERTY Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some peo...
ROBERT J. SHILLER I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, t...
ROBERT J. SHILLER Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember...
ROBERT J. SHILLER The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that...
ROBERT J. SAWYER General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
ROBERT J. SAWYER To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. K...
ROBERT J. FUREY You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
ROBERT J. SAWYER How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely mor...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Tolerate, change, or be grateful.
J. ROBERT MOSKIN In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Exp...
ROBERT J. FISHER By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that l...
ROBERT J. SHILLER My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you ca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, y...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... Peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provide...
ROBERT J. SHILLER You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The power of the understatement is enormous.
ROBERT J. RINGER Always let people be surprised that you gave them more than you promised, faster than you promised, ...
ROBERT J. RINGER What gives life itself such a high value is death.
ROBERT J. RINGER When it comes to negotiating diplomacy a pair of deuces beats hostility and four aces every time.
ROBERT J. RINGER Better to have someone unhappy about your refusal to commit than angry with your failure to execute.
ROBERT J. RINGER The hardest way to impress people is to try to impress people.
ROBERT J. RINGER