Future Quotes - Page 39

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

Let's have a toast - to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.

The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of radiation are Hertzian waves of the kind used in broadcasting. About every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. Perhaps then I may describe the end of the physical world as-one stupendous broadcast.

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.