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When you destroy people's religious expression, they will establish secularized religions like Marxism.

— Carroll Quigley Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

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Every civilization must be organized in such a way that it has invention, capital accumulation, and investment.

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Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

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Closely related to the erroneous idea that science is a body of knowledge is the equally erroneous idea that scientific theories are true.

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Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

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