Mankind's triumph is unequivocal. By standing on the shoulders of the aviation pioneers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, we have put time and distance in chains.
Louise Pasteur gave as the germ theory, supplanting primordial explanations of disease such as poisonous air. Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch made possible the nourishment of our soils and detonated the human population time bomb.
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