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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I realize that. My question is still valid. When would that ever be relevant to someone reading a book?
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we need to push back the boundaries of ignorance.
Why do we travel into space? Why, indeed, did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.
we are on a journey.
If i am reading Asimov and and i suddenly want to compare to roger zelazny to make sure it was not the same passage accidentally i would need to rush to zelanzy and back.
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. . . . The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
it is vital we all push forward and upwards.we must keep pushing onwards,push back the boundaries.
those who don't die a slow and horrible death as witnessed by the starvation of Africa.