“I believe that only in that atmosphere of intellectual freedom can we solve the problems before us now.”

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I believe that only in that atmosphere of intellectual freedom can we solve the problems before us now.

— Rachel Carson

Marine biologist and author

"Man Against Himself" (1963) in Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment

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