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The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for the appreciator must see the mo...more

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast...more

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, h...more

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

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Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we ...more