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We have... searched under the junipers for some dinosaur bones and come face to face with ourselves.

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Dying dinosaurs and Martian dust storms, atmospheric physics and smoky fires in Brazil — important ideas can have the unlikeliest provenance. It is unwise to assume that any course of study of exploration is irrelevant.

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Finding something is not the same as discovering what is found. The more astronomers study the growing evidence of extra-solar planets, the less the planets resemble anything in the one planetary system they had known and had based their theories on: the Sun's family of planets.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

John Noble Wilford

John Noble Wilford

Born: October 4, 1933 (age 91)
Bio: John Noble Wilford is an author and award-winning journalist for The New York Times.
Known for:
  1. The mapmakers (1981)
  2. We reach the moon (1969)
  3. Mars beckons (1990)
  4. The mysterious history of Columbus (1991)

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