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'The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time: our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devoted such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to find faster ways of doing things—as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.'