“One planet, one experiment.” If”
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“What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?”
Source: The Carrie Diaries
The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)
Travis McGee series, A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
Context: I think there is some kind of divine order in the universe. Every leaf on every tree in the world is unique. As far as we can see, there are other galaxies, all slowly spinning, numerous as the leaves in the forest. In an infinite number of planets, there has to be an infinite number with life forms on them. Maybe this planet is one of the discarded mistakes. Maybe it's one of the victories. We'll never know.
San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/10/DD861808G2.DTL
As quoted in Garry Davis Cult, Life (Jan 24, 1949)
“A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.”
From a letter written in 1911
Usually cited as Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. http://web.archive.org/web/20060421175318/http://www.uranos.eu.org/biogr/ciolke.html
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXVIII : “—under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid—”, p. 371
“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.”
