"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch'."
"The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know." - Robert Pirsig
Friday, 18 November 2016
Quotation of the Day
Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on the moon, describing his experience of seeing the Earth from the Moon:
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