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As colossal as it appears in photographs, it is surprisingly small when you come upon it, tucked away in its wooded setting in the Albert Einstein Science Park.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“Everything we do that’s perceived as absurd always starts from a real place of: ‘Something like this exists, and we’re going to expand upon it and go deeper and weirder with it.’

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

"We must hear it, we must act upon it and we must get it right. There will be no second chance."

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

And stay out of what we do because what we do is the business of humanity, of chronicling it, of commenting upon it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

And they rubbed the stain of earth from the baby’s forehead because man was not to be tied to the earth but free upon it.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya




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