Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.
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The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities.
Borrowing other people__ culture and adopting other people__ way of life does destroy nation__ self-respect which is the greatest asset a true citizen can enjoy more than food and clothes, more than all amenities and more than military glory. You can adopt a system of government and a way of life, but can you adopt the past history, travail and tradition out of which that system of government and a way of life were evolved? Can we adopt King Charles, King John, Magna Carta and civil wars and Cromwell as our own? They can always say __e evolved a system and a way of life_, but we must always sing in refrain, __e borrowed them_. Adopting a culture is not the same as adopting the use of a gadget. It is like tying other peoples_ mangoes to your tree, while plucking and throwing away your own. How absurd!
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.
The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.