Palash

“Within a decade, the internal combustion engine automobile is likely to look exactly like what it is - a machine that converts gasoline into much more heat than forward motion, a bizarre antiquity.”
― Stephen Petranek, Unser Leben auf dem Mars: TED Books

“The division into hundreds of countries whose borders and interests are defined by imagined local differences and arbitrary religious dogma, both of which are utterly irrelevant and meaningless on a galactic scale, must surely be addressed if we are to confront global problems such as mutually assured destruction, asteroid threats, climate change, pandemic disease and who knows what else, and flourish beyond the twenty-first century. The very fact that the preceding sentence sounds hopelessly utopian might provide a plausible answer to the Great Silence.”
― Brian Cox, Human Universe

“Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.”
― Amartya Sen, Hunger and Public Action

“Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.”
― Johann von Goethe