“Archaeology of the future is what it should be called. Archaeology of the past is very interesting because it tells us what we once were. But archaeology of the future is the study of what we're going to become, what we have a chance to become…it's a missing element in our understanding of the universe which tells us what our future is like, and what our place in the universe is. If there's nobody else out there, that's also quite important to know.”
On SETI, Nothing is Too Wonderful to be True (1995)
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"The Right of Things to Come", presentation for the Science Fiction Research Association (1978), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
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“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
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Joyzelle, Act i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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