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DeSwiss

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7. I think he.....
Sun Dec 23, 2012, 10:04 PM
Dec 2012

...along Max Plank and Carl Sagan were all acutely insightful in their fields of inquiry and in many respects, that of human nature. But they all recognized the limitations of both.

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." — Max Planck

''The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we've learned most of what we know. Recently we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep -- and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." — Carl Sagan

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