George Cowan quotes
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“In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.”
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“Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.”
-- George Cowan
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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