Quotes by Future Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society. J. Michael Bishop futurehopescience We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires. J. G. Holland futuremadeinspire Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children. J. William Fulbright futurenoblechildren The greatest adventure is what lies ahead J. R. R. Tolkien futureadventurelying Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe. Isaac Asimov futurespacescience There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people. Jack Kemp futurelimitspeople The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age. Jack Johnson piratefutureage Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands. Jack Johnson futuremachineshands In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge. Jackson Browne futuretiredwings Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. Jacob Burckhardt futureindividualmankind If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun futurevisioncivilization If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. Jacques Yves Cousteau futurehopefaith The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle Jamais Cascio futurework-outideas We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance. James A. Michener futureadventurebelieve Money won't change you, but time will take you out. James Brown premonitionfuture You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it James Callaghan futuregovernmentland The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now. James A. Baldwin futuretimememories There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. James A. Baldwin futureblessingtime Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. James D. Watson futurescienceyears There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future. James Dwight Dana futurerealbook«1718192021222324252627»
