![]() '[...] intellectual freedom is essential to human society—freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate, and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship. Freedom of thought is the only guarantee of the feasibility of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economy, and culture.' - Andrei Sakharov, Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom Sources: 'Andrei Sakharov', Wikipedia Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, Sakharovskii Tsentr Andrei Sakharov, Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom Photo: Wikipedia; attribution: RIA Novosti archive, image #25981 / Vladimir Fedorenko / CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
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