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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of sci

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science – steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains – none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last centurys attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. – James Buchan

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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. – James Buchan

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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war. – James Buchan

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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that mans actions are governed by the same tendency. – Rudolf Arnheim

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive. – James Anthony Froude

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Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. – Steven Molaro and Daley Haggar, The Big Bang Theory, “The Killer Robot Instabili

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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. – John Carmack

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