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0;font-weight:normal;font-family:'DejaVu Sans Condensed', 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;" class="">aided by brave innovators whose lives and ideas <br>continue to flood us assiduously—<br>with all their enigmatic spaces of science <br>and foaming dimensions of quantum time<br>we progressively but serenely soar upward<br>while dim corridors of compacting walls<br>ensnare angry devotees of garish skeptics<br>who bemoan any liberty of scientific outreach</p><p style="color:inherit;font-size:.9375em;line-height:1.618em;margin:0 0 1.25em 0;font-weight:normal;font-family:'DejaVu Sans Condensed', 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;" class="">&nbsp;</p><p style="color:inherit;font-size:.9375em;line-height:1.618em;margin:0 0 1.25em 0;font-weight:normal;font-family:'DejaVu Sans Condensed', 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;" class="">my flowing tears of everlasting hope <br>long for the rescues veiled in uncharted discovery<br>or a newer province to endeavor beyond <br>to learn greener things about us—<br>to imbibe all the oozing emulsions of thinking—<br>as nourishments far greater than the sums<br>of all our proud glory and follies of yesterday</p><p style="color:inherit;font-size:.9375em;line-height:1.618em;margin:0 0 1.25em 0;font-weight:normal;font-family:'DejaVu Sans Condensed', 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;" class="">&nbsp;</p><p style="color:inherit;font-size:.9375em;line-height:1.618em;margin:0 0 1.25em 0;font-weight:normal;font-family:'DejaVu Sans Condensed', 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;" class="">and when the rockets of unified minds lift off—<br>all the powers of physics, chemistry, and thought<br>are compressed into practical bottles of cosmic use<br>our oxidations of carbon and sound reason—<br>squelched within the expanding throats <br>of a white-hot energetic motor<br>explode over a million times per second</p><p style="color:inherit;font-size:.9375em;line-height:1.618em;margin:0 0 1.25em 0;font-weight:normal;font-family:'DejaVu Sans Condensed', 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;" class="">&nbsp;</p><p style="color:inherit;font-size:.9375em;line-height:1.618em;margin:0 0 1.25em 0;font-weight:normal;font-family:'DejaVu Sans Condensed', 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-left:40px;" class="">departing strings of white contrails arch up <br>into long screeching rivers of smoke—<br>to inspire another journey onward<br>to unearth another unique story <br>or to reach an authentic—loving hand<br>who also seeks us in a vaporous pathway<br>to secreted lands of shared discovery</p><p 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