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Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With…

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,…
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the…
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a…
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying…
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I…
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the…
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup…
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…

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I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. — George W. Bush
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of… — William J. Clinton
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill
In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power… — John Garamendi
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic… — Pope John Paul II
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors,… — Origen
Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable… — Madeleine Albright

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