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Dag Hammarskjöld
“He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.”
Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

Adam Smith
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Isaac Asimov
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

William  James
“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.”
William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

David Brin
“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
David Brin, Brightness Reef

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