As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. Thomas Edward Brown appealapproachdear share on social
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open. Terry Eagleton benjaminchangecurious Change image and share on social
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist. Brian Eno africanbackeast Change image and share on social
It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy. Dale Earnhardt buildcarlofuture Change image and share on social
In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done. Robert Lanza accidentautocell share on social
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present. Nicolas Roeg drawfilmfuture Change image and share on social
Same-sex marriage is not the future. Maggie Gallagher futuremarriagesex Change image and share on social
My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon. Buzz Aldrin basedayexperience Change image and share on social
My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics. I'd be very happy just to understand the last singularity and leave the other ones to future generations. Neil Turok futuregenerationhappen share on social
My experience in science has always been that the future always exceeds what we believe is possible. I suspect that we will explore the universe. Neil Turok exceedexperienceexplore Change image and share on social