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— Maria Mitchell"The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific."
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I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
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For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
— Vladimir Lenin
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