“A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.”
Marshall McLuhan book The Gutenberg Galaxy
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 73
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107 <br class="br">Talking the launch of the Apple iPod <br class="br">Posted on Slashdot http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107, October 23, 2001
“A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.”
Marshall McLuhan book The Gutenberg Galaxy
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 73
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br) European Space Agency (2005)
Roger Penrose book Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Ch. 1, Mathematical Elegance as a Driving Force, p. 62 https://books.google.com/books?id=T09kCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA62. <br class="br">Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe (2016)
“Sex in space is more than a Big Bang.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Femail Magazine June 2008. Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space http://www.femail.com.au/vanna-bonta-talks-sex-in-space.htm
Proclus (412–485) Greek philosopher
And after this manner, Euclid, in the sixth book, mentions both excess and defect. But in the present problem he requires application...
The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus on the First Book of Euclid's Elements Vol. 2 (1789)
“Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)
Variant translation:
What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.
Context: What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days. You judge of the continuous existence of the world, as an ephemeral insect might judge of yours. The world is eternal for you, as you are eternal to the being that lives but for one instant. Yet the insect is the more reasonable of the two. For what a prodigious succession of ephemeral generations attests your eternity! What an immeasurable tradition! Yet shall we all pass away, without the possibility of assigning either the real extension that we filled in space, or the precise time that we shall have endured. Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Delcy Rodríguez (1969) Venezuelan politician and lawyer
Source: Delcy Rodríguez (2021) cited in: " Can Maduro’s reluctant reforms halt Venezuela’s economic freefall? https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/can-maduros-reluctant-reforms-halt-venezuelas-economic-freefall.phtml" in BA Times, 25 June 2021.