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PhilGoetz comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 03 August 2015 07:47:40PM 3 points [-]

"But listen to me, because I saw it myself: science began poor. Science was broke and so it got bought. Science was scared and so did what it was told. It designed the gun and gave the gun to power, and power then held the gun to science's head and told it to make some more."

-- from Galileo's Dream, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Comment author: PhilGoetz 04 August 2015 04:29:49AM *  5 points [-]

More scientists can wield a gun than a sword.