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== Quotes ==
=== ''Significance'' (2012) ===

* It occurred to him that for a generation which had grown up in the relative stasis of the Soviet era the speed of development must be unnerving. Where once a local bakery would have been a mainstay of the community, now people were faced with the ever-changing high street – shops and restaurants coming and going, adrift on the tides of supply and demand. Even Baumgarten had noticed a certain generic quality creeping into the se(contracted; show full)''. Maybe the references to alchemy were an analogy. The eternal flame, the elixir of life and the transmutation of base substances into gold – they could be metaphors. They were searching for scientific truths but advances in science have always been connected with power and wealth. The first person to fashion a club, to sharpen a blade, to pull the trigger of a gun, to harness the power of steam; these are the people who ruled the world of their time."
** Chapter 18

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