Yegor T. Gaidar Quotes
I cannot serve in the government and at the same time be in opposition to it.
Yegor T. Gaidar, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Economics Minister, Explanation for his resignation, January 16, 1994
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The “experts” were scientists and science educators who had testified that Creationism, a notion that some religious Christians believe is a more valid explanation of the development of plants and animals than is Evolution, is a religious belief, not a science and should not be taught in a science curriculum. McLeroy believed that even in teaching science, scientific thinking and expertise should not be given more weight than religion in general and Christianity in particular. Some fundamentalist Protestants find Evolution distressing in that it contradicts the literal Biblical narrative. Other Protestants, Jews, and Catholics do not see anything in Evolution that conflicts with their spiritual view of God. They see Evolution as the mechanism that God created for the development of life. McLeroy was defeated in the next election after taking this anti scientific position, and was replaced with another fundamentalist Protestant—but one who did not believe that a particular Protestent, Christian view of the world which scientists generally reject should be taught as science in public schools.
He had been the President of the German Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic and had real credentials as an Economist. Many Europeans and Americans assumed that he could not be as apparently irrational as the Nazi rhetoric at the time. However, he had become a committed Nazi as this quotation demonstrates. Most of the professional men of Germany became Nazis out of conviction or as a means of getting ahead or maintining their position. Given the solid anti Fascist character of the overwhelming majority of Germans at the beginning of the 21st century. It is hard for most of us to believe that most of the Germans were ideological, Fascist, Right Wing, extremist fanatics, but the German national character transition has been remarkable and is in great part the result of a painful self examination of German history and men like Schacht.
