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"Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster."
— Jan 16, 2017 07:41AM
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Charmaine
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"We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed... And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilisations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor... would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities."
— Jan 16, 2017 07:58AM
Charmaine
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"Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day."
— Oct 23, 2016 05:51AM
Charmaine
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"Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its merits. The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavour of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental new insights."
— Aug 06, 2016 01:32AM
Charmaine
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"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
— Aug 04, 2016 09:28AM
