I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
They know enough who know how to learn.
My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.