“Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.” FirstsReasonDreamTodayInterestAchieveCenturyHigherMajorsFirst TimeDirectLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVisualsDimensionsAncestorOntology Author:Thomas Banchoff
“My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.” FirstsFatherNamesWalksKnownMiddleChosenHillsAncestorSolitaryChaptersVersesSelected Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.” FirstsWould BeAgeGrowsAdviceAncestorIce Age Author:Bertrand Russell