 There’s a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that’s out there exploring the stars, compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.
– Elon Musk (1971 -) |
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Edward Abbey – Has joy any survival value in evolution?
 Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
– Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
Michel Foucault – The fundamental arrangements of knowledge
 If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared…then one cancertainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.
– Michel Foucault (19261984) |
