If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his … - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

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