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The great contribution of science is to say that this second theory is nonsense.

— Edwin H. Land Generation of Greatness (1957)

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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist.

My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had.

There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

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