Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Limits
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible"
Arthur C. Clarke
"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Bertrand Russel
Arthur C. Clarke
"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Bertrand Russel
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Those quotes are vey true John.
Off topic here is a wonderful poem called High Flight written by an American pilot who volunteered for the RAF in WWII:
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— John Gillespie Magee, Jr
http://www.skygod.com/quotes/highflight.html
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Off topic here is a wonderful poem called High Flight written by an American pilot who volunteered for the RAF in WWII:
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— John Gillespie Magee, Jr
http://www.skygod.com/quotes/highflight.html
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