[The competition at the NASA Ames Research Center invited teams to take their best shot at creating the world's first] space elevator ... The Fountains of Paradise. |
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. |
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. |
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. |
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. |
How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. |
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. |
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. |
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.. |
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. |
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. |
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. |
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. |