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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you’ll get ten different answers, but there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us. It’ll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life and karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"‘Star Trek’ was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms."
"Other than Earth itself, the most habitable place in the solar system lies fifty-five kilometers above the surface of Venus. At that altitude, the temperature, atmospheric pressure, and gravity are all earth-like. And it would be easy to colonize. The atmosphere is so dense that breathable air acts as a lifting gas, turning every habitable space into an airship."