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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, Feynman wrote, for nature cannot be fooled.

Tumbling gently in free fall, it took two minutes and forty-ve seconds for
the broken section of Challenger to hit the Atlantic, and it now seemed possible that the seven members of the crew might have been alive the whole way down.

"Seduced by their own mythos, and blind to the subtleties of engineering complexity that none of them fully understood, the nation’s smartest minds had unwittingly sent seven men and women to their deaths".

The intensity of the fire had incinerated so much of the cabin of Spacecraft that it was impossible to prove ...how it had begun. But the evidence suggested that it started with a short circuit caused by worn insulation on a wire in the cable bundles tangled near Gus Grissom’s feet, close to a leak in the pipework carrying ethylene glycol around the troubled environmental control system.

From the inspections on Apollo 1 accident : "When engineers at the Cape
conducted an inspection of the latest Apollo capsule, recently delivered from the contractors, they uncovered more than 1,400 wiring faults. "

The moment you stop to think whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Then children grow up, and you no longer know what they think or what they feel.

"What killed him was his loyalty to people who, when their time came, betrayed him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”

few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.

Did you know that books can heal you ?They help restore me .

When have time and attention ever prevented genocide?

When have time and attention ever prevented genocide

"A society will push distant ecosystems to the brink of collapse in order to achieve marginal gains in wealth and comfort. A nation will mourn the deaths of its own soldiers while celebrating the casualties on the other side. We see only the suffering in those we are close to,.. But we do not see the bigger picture because empathy blinds us to it. Reason enlarges the circle".

Just because a thing is not forbidden does not mean that it is right

Ostentatious displays of wealth were never for the wealthy. They were for those still capable of being mesmerized by wealth.

“What does that mean, to say that something is in the past? Does it mean that it doesn’t exist anymore, that it can be forgotten? If so, then nothing is ever in the past"