"While politicians wrangled on the front pages of our newspapers, quiet revolutions looked within. Only occasionally did the news I thought most notable make the front page. All of it hinged on the steady building of connections which marks modern science."
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“A Scientist’s Notebook: Life on Mars?” in Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1997, p. 111
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