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Henry Kissinger
(27 May 1923 - )
German-American political scientist and diplomat who served as the U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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Science Quotes by Henry Kissinger (2 quotes)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
— Henry Kissinger
Kissinger’s wording of an old academic saw. Variations of the same idea have been expressed by several other people. In Ralph Keyes, The Quote Verifier (2006), 1, Wallace Sayre is named as having been most prominent, with Sayre’s Law, “In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue—that is why academic politics are so bitter.”
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
— Henry Kissinger
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
