Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were address…

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Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.264, Hamilton Books
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