Sunsets in pictures are so tiresome, but only boors and hal… - Olaf Stapledon

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Sunsets in pictures are so tiresome, but only boors and half-wits are not stirred by real sunsets.

Olaf Stapledon

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William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction. His best known, and what he considered as his best work, was Star Maker (1937), which included the first known description of a Dyson sphere. The Dyson sphere was later described by Freeman Dyson in the 1959 article "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infra-Red Radiation" in Science, as one possible method of locating extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Native Name: William Olaf Stapledon

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Sunsets in pictures are so tiresome, but only boors and half-wits are not stirred by real sunsets. - Olaf Stapledon

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