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William Shockley

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Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.
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As quoted in "Shockley's Race View called 'Senile, Fascist'" in St. Petersburg Times (8 September 1971)

 
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