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- The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
- Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the…
- Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music…
- We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being…
- The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most…
- I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as…
- The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden…
- As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still…
- It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle