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{{quote|''"The future is a moving target."''|'''[[Warren Ellis]], "[http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/02/start/warren-ellis.aspx I plan to invest in anti-carnivorous robot security]"'''}} |
{{quote|''"The future is a moving target."''|'''[[Warren Ellis]], "[http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/02/start/warren-ellis.aspx I plan to invest in anti-carnivorous robot security]"'''}} |
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{{quote|''"Our love is like a brontosaurus. Recognized as a mistaken combination long ago, lingering only out of misplaced affection for a mistaken past."''|'''''[[ |
{{quote|''"Our love is like a brontosaurus. Recognized as a mistaken combination long ago, lingering only out of misplaced affection for a mistaken past."''|'''''[[Xkcd]]'''''}} |
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{{quote|"''Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."''|'''Commissioner Pravin Lal''' - "A Social History of Planet", '''''[[Sid |
{{quote|"''Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."''|'''Commissioner Pravin Lal''' - "A Social History of Planet", '''''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'''''}} |
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{{quote|''In those white-heat-of-technology days every astronomy book had an early chapter which was invisibly entitled "Let's have a good laugh at the beliefs of those old farts in togas" (reality in those days being something called Zeta, a nuclear reactor that would soon be producing so much electricity we'd all be paid to use it).''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]''', ''The Discworld Companion''}} |
{{quote|''In those white-heat-of-technology days every astronomy book had an early chapter which was invisibly entitled "Let's have a good laugh at the beliefs of those old farts in togas" (reality in those days being something called Zeta, a nuclear reactor that would soon be producing so much electricity we'd all be paid to use it).''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]''', ''The Discworld Companion''}} |
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"The sort of SF that relies directly on state-of-the-art stuff like micro-black-holes or Piltdown Man is the only kind that really suffers when scientists move the goalposts."
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"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
—Max Planck
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"The future is a moving target."
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"Our love is like a brontosaurus. Recognized as a mistaken combination long ago, lingering only out of misplaced affection for a mistaken past."
—Xkcd
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"Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."
—Commissioner Pravin Lal - "A Social History of Planet", Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
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In those white-heat-of-technology days every astronomy book had an early chapter which was invisibly entitled "Let's have a good laugh at the beliefs of those old farts in togas" (reality in those days being something called Zeta, a nuclear reactor that would soon be producing so much electricity we'd all be paid to use it).
—Terry Pratchett, The Discworld Companion
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