05-05-2023, 11:23 AM
“The best proof that there’s intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn’t come here.”
“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return … The
coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation … the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.”
“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive; we may well be
like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms, while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.”
Arthur C Clarke.
“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return … The
coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation … the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.”
“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive; we may well be
like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms, while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.”
Arthur C Clarke.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)