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Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventure in the Simple and Compex (1994), 374-375.
See also:  |  Biology (39)  |  Culture (19)  |  Diversity (16)  |  Ecology (10)  |  Preservation (2)

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this–that men despair and think things impossible.
Translation of Novum Organum, CIX. In Francis Bacon, James Spedding, The Works of Francis Bacon (1864), Vol. 8, 140-141.
See also:  |  Despair (4)  |  Impossible (16)  |  Obstacle (4)  |  Progress Of Science (2)  |  Thinking (49)  |  Undertake (2)

The task is ... not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
Quoted in L. Bertalanffy, Problems of Life (1952).
See also:  |  See (6)  |  Thought (63)

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