"It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world."

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It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

— Daniel J. Boorstin