Quotes

They became upright and taught themselves the use of tools, domesticated other animals, plants and fire, and devised language. The ash of stellar alchemy was now emerging into consciousness. At an ever-accelerating pace, it invented writing, cities, art and science, and sent spaceships to the planets and the stars. These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution. Carl Sagan

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” ― Thomas Sowell

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other. \- You don't understand what time is,' he said. 'You say the past is gone. the future is not real, there is no…

Knowledge means

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Marshall McLuhan

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them. G.K. Chesterton