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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. – V. S. Naipaul

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. – Edwin Powell Hubble

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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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Im opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I dont waver. – Douglas Wilson

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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive. – Taryn Manning

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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