When others raised the objection "but if everybody were to behave like you ...," he replied that this possibility seemed to him so implausible that he did not feel obliged to take it into account.
—The Economist, August 20, 1998, p. 70. Quoted in Love and Math by Edward Frenkel. The story is about André Weil, who during WWII felt it was his duty, "not just to himself but also to civilization, to devote his life to mathematics."
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