"The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things."

-- George Gilder

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“If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.”
“Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.”
“We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be okay. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move, everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.”
“I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.”

Source : "Non vince la scienza" by Umberto Veronesi, www.repubblica.it. November 14, 2008.
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”
“Acting is really therapeutic for me, personally. That's something that I'll always remember. I don't know how it's going to look, but I gave it my heart and soul.”

Source : "Crystal Reed Talks TEEN WOLF, The Psychological Aspect of Season 3b, the Relationship Between Allison and Isaac, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 27, 2014.
“There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.”
“The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.”

Source : William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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