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- We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
- Christopher Reeve, Testimony to US House of Representative, 1999
- Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
- Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
- The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
- We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
- Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)
- The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
- A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
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