Ted Chu > Quotes

“Only a few of us retain a childlike wonder throughout our lives. A typical life’s journey is one with increasing knowledge but decreasing mental and physical adaptability. Our mindset unknowingly gets trapped in conceptions and categories that we create. As Aristotle observed, as we grow older, we aspire to nothing great and exalted and crave the mere necessities and comforts of existence. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
― Ted Chu, Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution

“John Anthony Froude illustrates the cyclic nature of history when he says, “Virtue and truth produced strength, strength dominion, dominion riches, riches luxury, and luxury weakness and collapse.”
― Ted Chu, Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution

“Not knowing what happened before you were born, before your country was formed, even before your species appeared, means remaining a “child” forever.”
― Ted Chu, Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution