This hits home for me. Art, music, literature, science: these are some of humanity’s crowning accomplishments and some of the pursuits that help give us meaning and purpose. And they’ve made lives immeasurably better. Purposefully discarding them for political power feels fundamentally misanthropic.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
Thinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings.
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