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Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Edgar Adrian

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Born: November 30, 1889
Died: August 4, 1977 (aged 87)
Bio: Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons.

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