Monthly Archives: July 2011

Quote for the Day

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

While Paine’s scientific skepticism ate away at the pomp and pretense of European nobility, the findings of eighteenth-century science afforded him an impression of the universe as based on harmounious laws, which in turn implied that human society too should … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

As the republic of letters brings forward the best literary productions, by giving to genius a fair and universal chance; so the representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom from where it can … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. –Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise Send to Kindle

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Look Up

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

The small amount of trouble in our lives too often becomes what defines our lives. We are programmed to focus on what is amiss. We have an itch, we scratch; we’re uncomfortable, we shift our position in our seats. We’re … Continue reading →

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Landing on Mars

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to cast the old aside. –Alexander Pope Send to Kindle

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

In the history of human thought science has often come out of superstition. Astronomy came out of astrology. Chemistry came out of alchemy. What will come out of economics? –what Peter Berger tells us was the first paragraph of Bernard … Continue reading →

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Dawn Nears Vesta

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

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