"Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Science as articulated by Henry W. Kendall. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Science provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

About Henry W. Kendall

Henry Way Kendall was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."

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