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We realize now that progress in technology depends on progress in theory; that the most abstract investigations can lead to the most concrete results; and that the vitality of a scientific community springs from its passion to answer science’s most fundamental questions. JFK speech to National academy of science on October 22, 1963.

Sentences to ponder. Pages 340 and 341. That basic cultural misunderstanding meant that Hall, and most of those over the generations who studied the map he brought home, could not see the precise location the Inuk had pointed out because they didn’t see the Arctic as Inuit did.

Sentences to ponder in the Pre-face to the English translation. “The Communist regime has not been overthrown in 60 years, not because there has not been any struggle against it from the inside, not because people docilely surrender to it, but because it’s inhumanely strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West.”

Notable quotes. Page 539. Do a similarity of paths in life in the similarity of situations give rise to a similarity in characters? As a general thing it doesn’t. For people with strong minds and spirits of their own it does not. They have their own solutions, their own special traits, and they can be very surprising.

A quote from page 213. And thus it is that I am writing this book solely from a sense of obligation because too many stories and recollections have accumulated in my hands and I cannot allow them to perish.