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Even such supposedly fundamental drives as having children vary significantly with the social situation; this drive was effectively repressed in the upper classes in Imperial Rome ...

— Gerald Feinberg

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To determine what science will be in the future, we need a conception of what science is. I define science as "the systematic effort to understand natural phenomena."

Solid Clues: Quantum Physics, Molecular Biology, and the Future of Science (1985)

Developments in the 20th century have made the future of life, especially human life, on earth somewhat more uncertain than it previously was. I refer of course to the possiblity of all-out nuclear war. and to the possibility of environmental disaster on a global scale.

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