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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."
"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
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"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance."
"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."
"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."
"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."
"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars."
"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
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