"We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely."

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Source : "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

Gerard K. O'Neill

#Moon Quotes #Somewhere Else Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“It's not that I like you least [...] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.”
“I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.”

Source : Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.223, SCB Distributors
“And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.”
“Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]”
“I never talk to tabloids.”
“I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that Im so completely in the back seat.”
“Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.”
“Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.”

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