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“What is the aim of science?”
“What?”
“Man’s happiness. If science doesn’t make men happier, what good is it? Knowledge is power, a weapon, and if the scientist doesn’t care where it’s aimed, what makes him different from a mercenary soldier?”

— Dmitri Bilenkin The Uncertainty Principle (1978)

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This mountain could be a throne for God or Satan, but luckily, we are no longer children. We’ve climbed the highest peak in the solar system accessible to us, that’s all. Be happy, man!

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