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"The suppressed hunger to think was like an epidemic."
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Mark CliftonA human being is seldom bothered with insufficient data; often the les — Mark Clifton
"A human being is seldom bothered with insufficient data; often the less he has the more willing he is to give a firm opinion; and man prefers some answer, even a wrong one, to the requirement that he dig deeper and find out the facts."
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Mark Irwin Clifton was an American science fiction writer, the co-winner of the second Hugo Award for best novel. He began publishing in May 1952 with the widely anthologized story "What Have I Done?".
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"Logical rationality is neither subversive nor nonsubversive. It is simply a statement of fact."
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"It (objection to a machine that could think) was the hook used by the rabble rousers, whose monopoly of moral interpretation might be challenged."
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"The public wants miracles. The public demands miracles; and if one source ceases to provide them, they will turn to another source which seems to accomplish the spectacular. Even while they resented and opposed the scientific attitude, they lapped up the miracles which this attitude accomplished with glee."
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"In either event he could only adhere to the letter of the law, but then for every yea in the law there was a nay, and it always boiled down to simple expediency. Like a psychiatric diagnosis, it could always be juggled around to fit anything you chose."
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"Somehow I got the impression that instead of looking into a crystal ball, they would be more inclined to look out of one."
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