in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!
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Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it, for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
If the wormcam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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In my time I've been very fortunate to see many of my dreams come true! Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, I never expected to see so much happen in the span of a few decades. We "space cadets" of the British Interplanetary Society spent all our spare time discussing space travel, but we didn't imagine that it lay in our own near future... I still can't quite believe that we've just marked the 50th anniversary of the Space Age! We've accomplished a great deal in that time, but the "Golden Age of Space" is only just beginning. Over the next 50 years, thousands of people will travel to Earth orbit — and then, to the Moon and beyond. Space travel, and space tourism, will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic destinations on our own planet.
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When the pioneers and adventurers of our past left their homes in search of new lands, they said good-bye forever to the place of their birth and the companions of their youth. Only a lifetime ago, parents waved farewell to their emigrating children in the virtual certainty that they would never meet again.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa's heaven was only an illusion.
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