"The world has become too dangerous for anything less than utopias."
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John R. Piatt (1969) in: New York Times, September 2, 1969.
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John R. Platt
John Rader Platt (March 25, 1918 – June 17, 1992) was an American physicist and biophysicist at the University of Chicago.
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