Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEGINNING WITH Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Newton and his famous apple, there has been more fiction than truth in the popular conception of how scientists discover what they discover. And the conception of what motivates them to discover anything at all is equally mythical...
...find often when we are laughing in Vonnegut's books that we are laughing because what he points out is true. The truth, because it really exists, is funny. When Malachi Constant's father found he couldn't buy the Mona Lisa, he debased her by using her in an advertising campaign for suppositories; the whole idea is funny because we know it could happen, and it's true that that is about the way a lot of people alive today think...
...truth each man is a free being if only he wants to be. To have said "turn the other cheek" is only to have said that you will let no man's action towards you determine your action towards him. You need only to refuse to let his action determine your response. You need only to refuse to respond to his blow with an attack of your own. You need only to refuse to answer ultimatum with ultimatum. At one point in Paine Hall Dean Glimp acted as a free man. He said, "The fourth alternative is to remove...
...outrageous that one group believes that it has the truth," Hoffmann said. "This is something that can be settled only by rational debate and not by one group," he added. Hoffmann condemned the sit-in as an "intolerable form of pressure." He said that the "clock has been turned back," because of the sit-in, adding that proposals for student representation would have been introduced at the Faculty meeting...
...militant tactics on behalf of moral causes. "As a philosopher, I do get depressed about the moral relativism that our colleagues in Social Sciences see fit to embrace," he said. "The idea that on a serious moral issue on which people disagree, neither side can claim the truth seems to me an intolerable position," Putnam added. "What people have, they have because they fought," he said...