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— Thornton Wilder"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
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I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.
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