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“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”

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"Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century."

— Connie Willis

Literature1945

#Human Nature

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Social Activism1930

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