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"We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life."

Veteran Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
November 1st, 1937



"We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious."

Astronomer, astrophysicist, author and cosmologist Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1994



"Who controls the past
Controls the future.
Who controls the present,
Controls the past."

Eric Arthur Blair a.k.a. George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949



"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

Inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla
Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency, February 1892