It’s only too easy to read your own state of mind into what other people say. - Fred Hoyle

Losing power, utterly and completely, is the most dreadful prospect that a politician can think of. It overshadows everything else.

I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

Where, then, do we go from here? The answer to this critical question plainly depends on whether the rise of the world population becomes permanently stabilized or not. Will the warnings of the past be heeded? My suspicion is that they will not.