Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational mind is a faithful servant.