“The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's 'History,' compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.” TwoBookFactsFacesNumbersEnormousChainsReasoningChaptersQuotationsSuperficialTestamentDiscourseCompelledNew TestamentFace To FaceBlasphemy Author:Leo Strauss
“By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.” ThinkingWorldHumansFactsFateSpeciesShipsHopefulJustifyChaptersExploringHuman HistoryOther Worlds Author:Carl Sagan