Our Descendants Quotes
30 quotes by 27 authors
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.…
— E. O. Wilson
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if…
— Patrick Henry
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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward…
— John Templeton
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It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will…
— Seneca the Younger
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Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires…
— David R. Brower
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Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may…
— John Holdren
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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of…
— Greg Egan
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as…
— Russell Kirk
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What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family…
— Theodore M. Burton
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We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as…
— Walter Weyl
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We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space…
— Walter Cronkite
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In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their…
— Samuel Adams
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The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who…
— Michio Kaku
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is…
— Alice Walker
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction…
— E. O. Wilson
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Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our…
— Henry B. Eyring
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I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot…
— Kage Baker
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