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SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. (Ernest Renan, French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, philosopher, critic, and historian of religion. 1823-1892)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher whose work is one of the cornerstones of media theory, 1911-1980)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: The World would be a safer place, If someone had a plan: Before exploring Outer Space, To find the Inner Man. (E.Y. Harburg, popular song lyricist and librettist, 1896-1981)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. (William Osier, Canadian physician, known as the Father of Modern Medicine, 1849-1919)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: Art is I; science is we. (Claude Bernard, French physiologist who was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations, 1913-1878)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY: Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)