
Source: Exploration of Space (1952)
Exploration of Space (1952)
1950s
Context: We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return … The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation … the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.
Source: Exploration of Space (1952)
The Point of No Return
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)
Associated Press interview, May 2000
This followed the withdrawl of Israeli troops from Lebanon.
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Context: Here, at the birth of modern science, is a fundamental insight. Our knowledge of nature Out There begins with knowledge of ourselves In Here. Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.
Afterword: The Idols of the Bedchamber
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 384
“The past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.”
Short story, 'Aquifer' - p.53
Short stories, The Turning (2004)