“For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.” DoeCountryPurposeRecordsStrangeEternalClockPassagesTravelerSchedulesAttemptingMemorialTick Author:Louis J. Halle
“The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.” WholeProblemPurposeEnergyNationsSpaceViewsCommonMankindParticularConflictIdealsInternationalPursuitUndertakingsPreoccupationColonizationCommon Purpose Author:Louis J. Halle