"Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering."

-- Siddhartha Mukherjee

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“I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.”
“We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.”
“The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole”
“Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary”

Source : "Jason Biggs 'American Pie 2'". Interview with Jane Crowther, www.bbc.co.uk.
“Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.”

Source : William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22
“Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.”
“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
“These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.”

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