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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up.

In Pensées and Letters of Joseph Joubert (1928), 74.

See also: | Question (52) | Quip (59) | Stir (2)

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

— Lancelot Hogben

In Science for the Citizen (1938), 1075.

See also: | Democracy (4) | Engineer (17) | Pen (2)

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

— Sir Hermann Bondi

quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. MacKay (Bristol, 1991)

See also: | Science (463)

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