Kate

“When it came to her son, Dr. Jones’s country did what it does best—it forgot him. The forgetting is habit, is yet another necessary component of the Dream. They have forgotten the scale of theft that enriched them in slavery; the terror that allowed them, for a century, to pilfer the vote; the segregationist policy that gave them their suburbs. They have forgotten, because to remember would tumble them out of the beautiful Dream and force them to live down here with us, down here in the world. I am convinced that the Dreamers, at least the Dreamers of today, would rather live white than live free. In the Dream they are Buck Rogers, Prince Aragorn, an entire race of Skywalkers. To awaken them is to reveal that they are an empire of humans and, like all empires of humans, are built on the destruction of the body. It is to stain their nobility, to make them vulnerable, fallible, breakable humans. Dr.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur.” As”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three

“Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“The airless moon receives more than 13,000 terawatts of solar power. Harnessing just one percent of that sunlight could satisfy Earth’s power needs. Criswell”
― Buzz Aldrin, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration