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I think the best artists aren't doing it for the prize, they aren't doing it for the fame or the money. They're doing it because they love the art.

— Lex Fridman

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"I think you have to try to walk in the middle, like, with the empathy and humility. And that's actually what science is about, is the. Is the humility."

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Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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