“… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious terms, this is the Feuerbachian thesis that God is just a projection of the best, and sometimes the worst, of humanity. In philosophical terms, it is the thesis that anything that talk of objectivity can do to make our practices intelligible can be done equally well by talk of intersubjectivity.”
"John Searle on Realism and Relativism." Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
"Reflections on Real and Unreal Objects", Undated, MS 966
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 146
Wei Jingsheng (1950) Chinese democracy activist and dissident
"In Exile, Free Speech at Last in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/11/22/in-exile-free-speech-at-last/4591c34b-12c4-4a86-be28-261f6a260b8d/ (22 November 1997)
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Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
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World Wildlife Fund: British National Appeal Banquet, London (1962)
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
Rejoinder when told that he couldn't talk about physics, because "nobody [at this table] knows anything about it."
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake", p. 310.
Quoted in Handbook of Economic Growth (2005) by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
“Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.”
Helen Clark (1950) 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
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