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Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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