Keyframes – Factual Fiction Studios

“If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it–and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.”

Charles Sheffield, Keynote Address AAS Annual Meeting, 1978

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“Equipped with the five senses, Man explores the universe around him. And calls the adventure Science.”

Edwin P. Hubble

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“A rocket is only a means — what I’m working for is this resettling. The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space.”

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky to a friend in the 1930s

“We are in the midst of a knowledge explosion, and if our rate of acquisition of new scientific knowledge continues to accelerate, as it is now doing, it seems to me quite likely that within much less than a thousand years we will know, if not everything about the natural world, at least so much that science will no longer be of great interest and challenge. In that case I would expect that our most talented individuals, a few of whom now study the natural and biological sciences, would turn their attention to the arts, or to the greatest intellectual problem that is now imaginable to me: the riddle of consciousness. My picture of an advanced civilization is one in which science, aided by computers with an intelligence level far higher than that of any living being, will already have answered all the merely physical question. […] I consider it probable that in advanced stages of a long-lived civilization the physical world will be taken for granted, as something long since understood and thoroughly tamed. Most of the interest and activity, I would guess, will be intellectual, artistic, and social.”