“We need a continuing presence in space.”
Bill Kaczor, Associated Press (May 8, 1993) "Astronauts advocate return to the moon, space flights beyond", The Tampa Tribune, p. 7.
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“It is never presence that gives us the feedback we need, but distance.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non è mai la presenza a darci il riscontro di cui abbiamo bisogno, ma la distanza.
Source: prevale.net
“Law is the continuous manifestation of God's presence — not reason for believing him absent.”
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Suggestions for Thought : Selections and Commentaries (1994), edited by Michael D. Calabria and Janet A. MacRae, p. 41
Context: Law is the continuous manifestation of God's presence — not reason for believing him absent.
Great confusion arises from our using the same word law in two totally distinct senses … as the cause and the effect. It is said that to "explain away" everything by law is to enable us to do without God.
But law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table. Law brings us continually back to God instead of carrying us away from him.
“We need space for reasons we have not as yet discovered, and I don't mean Tupperware.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Playboy interview (1996)
Context: If NASA's budgeters could be convinced that there are riches on Mars, we would explode overnight to stand on the rim of the Martian abyss. We need space for reasons we have not as yet discovered, and I don't mean Tupperware. … NASA feels it has to justify everything it does in practical terms.
And Tupperware was one of the many practical products that came out of space travel. NASA feels it has got to flimflam you to get you to spend money on space. That's B. S. We don't need that. Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000) British mathematician
p, 125
The Structure of the Universe: An Introduction to Cosmology (1949)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) German philosopher
Grundriss des Eigenthümlichen der Wissenschaftslehre in Rücksicht auf das theoretische Vermögen (1795) GA I.3, as quoted/translated by Erhard Scholz, "Philosophy as a Cultural Resource and Medium of Reflection for Hermann Weyl" http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409596 (2004).
James Callaghan (1912–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
Prime Minister
Source: Remarks to the Cabinet on official pay policy (20 July 1978), quoted in Tony Benn, Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977–80 (1990), p. 326
