h+ Quotes

"I was given to understand that She manipulated whole sciences and thought systems as I might string words into a sentence. But Her 'sentences' were as huge and profound as the utterances of the universe itself." - David Zindell

"And thus he almost understood the important thing about gods, which is that they must continually create, or die. They must create themselves.
" - David Zindell

"You freeze the brain, you slice it very thinly, these very thin slices you scan using an electron microscope or some other form of microscope, at the nanometer precision. You get these images, you process them in a computer three-dimensional model -- Where are the different synapses and neurons, what are the strengths, what are the connections? You use that to create a computer simulation of the brain, and then you start the simulation." - Anders Sandberg, Computational Neuroscientist

"Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development." - Yuri Gagarin, on Vladimir Kamarov's death (Warning: May be Soviet forgery)

"The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms." - Andrei Finkelstein

"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible." - Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, 1970

"Technology shapes society and society shapes technology." - Robert W. White, Environmental Science and Technology, 1990

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." - John F. Kennedy

"I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre." - Berkley (1685-1753)

"If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds." - The Bhagavad Gita, as quoted by Robert Oppenheimer the day after the Trinity Test, 1945

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - William Shakespeare