“I may be a minority of one in advocating that one should NOT separate science and politics—partly because I am old enough to remember the Weimar Republic before 1934…”

— Edwin Ernest Salpeter

[Edwin E. Salpeter, The initial mass function 50 years later, Edvige Corbelli, Francesco Palla, Hans Zinnecker, Springer, 2005, 1402034075, 10]

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