“From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.” Has BeensRealScienceTurnsViewsPlanetsEntertainmentPoint Of ViewUselessEstatesSequelsSolar System Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.” ThinkingHas BeensJusticeViewsIssuesInfluencePoint Of ViewTendenciesUnconsciousMinoritiesOrthodoxSubconsciousConformOrthodoxySuppressionDeviate Author:William O. Douglas
“Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.” IfsWorldHumansHas BeensDifferentViewsProgressEvolutionJudgmentPoint Of ViewOnenessOur TimeInternalsMasteryDistinguishedForgetfulnessHuman Evolution Author:R. D. Laing