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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (“Bernard of Chartres used

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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. – Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

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I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. – Marcus Porcius Cato

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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. – Paul Valéry

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Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital… the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. – Amory Lovins

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