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“O desafio do desenvolvimento científico atinge o país inteiro e põe em jogo mecanismos que atravessam a sociedade toda. Sem cultura científica mínima são escassas as oportunidades de cidadania autêntica, de construir ou participar nas escolhas de sociedade […].”
― Manifesto para a Ciência em Portugal
― Manifesto para a Ciência em Portugal

“The ultimate lesson is that science isn’t special � at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were only a few dozen important workers in every field. But there are now three million researchers in America. It’s no longer a calling, it’s a career. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren’t saints, they’re human beings, and they do what human beings do � lie, cheat, steal from one another, sue, hide data, fake data, overstate their own importance and denigrate opposing views unfairly. That’s human nature. It isn’t going to change”
― Next
― Next

“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“Ao longo de 400 anos, de D. João III a Oliveira Salazar, Portugal criou uma forma mental e uma visão do mundo que se alimentam exclusivamente da negativização do pensamento oposto, da doutrina contrária, da teoria diferente, nulificando igualmente os seus autores � conceito combatido, autor preso, exilado ou morto, livro queimado ou proibido. O pensador portador da diferença era encarado como inimigo a abater ou a esmagar e o povo � eterno rústico aldeão, alimentado pelas malhas de crendice e da superstição � como massa amorfa ignorante a iluminar e converter. A história da cultura portuguesa moderna e contemporânea solidificou-se, ao longo de cerca de 400 anos por via de uma série de sucessivas negatividades que não têm par no movimento cultural dos restantes países europeus, porventura com excepção da Espanha.”
― A Morte de Portugal
― A Morte de Portugal

“The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.”
― The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
― The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

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