It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
