“Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human dest...” — Barney Oliver Quote

“Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.”

“Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.”

“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

“If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.”

“Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.”

“No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.”

“Love is a biological necessity that is as vital to a person’s wellbeing as fresh water, food, and exercise.”

“Whatever we make, or invent, or build, is with us forever; we cannot throw it away. The methan and carbon diocide we put into the atmosphere will have effects, just like the nitrogen and phospate we flush into our rivers. They will end up impacting on human and more-than-human bodies, and lives. So the first question is 'should we be doing this?' That must replace the standard 20th-century question: 'can we make a profit from doing this?”

“Recount science with wise. If you tell it to ignorant, it is like a stack of hay blown by storm.”

“When the conceptual world of the intellect acts as a gravity well, it collapses the present moment into duality, which is not the actual nature of experience. We start to live farther away from the facts, resulting in a narrowing of vision, further concealing truths that may not benefit from being hidden.”

“Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart." - from the novel Brainjob by David Sloma.”