“As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.” WayMindDifferentTodayLiteratureTomorrowExcellenceMediumsCertaintyMiserableEvolveExcitementAweAnticipationCantOpen MindCredulityScepticism Author:John Brunner
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.” MenWayMeanStatesReasonLyingChoicesConcernedExcellenceDetermineDeterminedPracticalsRelativeMoral Excellence Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation