Every discovery in physics is a step closer to understanding the grand design of the universe.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
People with passion can change the world for the better.
The most effective development interventions are often the simplest ones.