“Science, philosophy, literature and art do not have any value if the ones who are active in these fields keep silence about the executions.”

— Taraneh Javanbakht

Source: Gooyanews website, 2015 http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2016/03/209463.php

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Alvin M. Weinberg (1915–2006) American nuclear physicist

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Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986) Indian Bharatnatyam dancer

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“I write… for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is… a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb—the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.”

Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician

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“Philosophy is the science of estimating values.”

Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) Canadian writer and mystic

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“Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

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“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”

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“Most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Playboy interview (1996)

“In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

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“I have a philosophy that when you have a commander in the field, let him know what you want done and then let him alone. I have two other philosophies. One is: Do the best you can with what you have. The other is: Do not worry about water over the dam.”

Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations

From Time magazine's interview with King, Volume XL, Number 23 (December 7, 1942), p. 32.
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