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Brian Aldiss,Roger Penrose

White Mars

  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted8 days ago
    CPS is Clear Physical Signal.
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted8 days ago
    ‘It is because of their lack of imagination that we are able completely to rely on them.’
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted9 days ago
    the greatest part of mankind had no other reason for their opinions than that they were in fashion.’
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted9 days ago
    When witch-hunts were the thing, we believed in witches or, if we did not believe, we did not like to speak out, for fear of making ourselves silly or unpopular.
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted9 days ago
    capital punishment for murder, private insurance for accident, abortion for unwanted babies – they do little good. They merely increase the burdens of life.
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted12 days ago
    I held what I considered an old-fashioned view: that at the centre of ‘family life’ was the woman who must bring forth a new generation, and both she and her children needed such protection as a male could give.
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted12 days ago
    Transcendics I regard as embodying something destructive in the character of mankind
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted18 days ago
    At calls for examples, Kissorian instanced Copernicus, William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, William Godwin with An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Florence Nightingale, ‘The Lady with the Lamp’, the great Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, Marx, Lenin, Dreiser Hawkwood, and many others, all later-born progeny.
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted18 days ago
    Mistaken Historicism, Transcendics, Market Domination and Popular Subscription, all of which made existence more difficult than it need be for the multitudinous occupants of our green mother planet.
  • Liana Lutfullinahas quoted18 days ago
    we must ensure that everyone works, and is kept busy at a job that suits her or his intellect.’
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