January 19, 2013
"…Civilizations do fail. We have never yet seen one that hasn’t. The difference is that the torch of progress has in the past always passed to another region of the world. But we’ve now, for the first time, got a single global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together…"

Tim O’Reilly, fundador & CEO de O’Reilly Media.

Vía: Emergent Futures

(Source: edge.org)

January 30, 2012
"…No hay nada tan nefasto para el progreso de la mente humana que suponer que nuestra perspectiva de la ciencia es definitiva, que nuestros triunfos han sido completados, que la naturaleza no guarda misterios, y que no hay nuevos mundos sin conquistar…"

— Humphry Davy, Químico.

(Source: esepuntoazulpalido.com)

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