“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.”
― Markings
― Markings
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“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.”
― The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
― The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
― Brightness Reef
― Brightness Reef
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