On the Future Quotes

“The global village will have its village idiots and they’ll have global range.”
― Martin Rees, On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

“Alfred Russel Wallace, co-conceptualiser of evolution by natural selection: I thought of the long ages of the past during which the successive generations of these things of beauty had run their course … with no intelligent eye to gaze upon their loveliness, to all appearances such a wanton waste of beauty.… This consideration must surely tell us that all living things were not made for man.… Their happiness and enjoyments, their loves and hates, their struggles for existence, their vigorous life and early death, would seem to be immediately related to their own well-being and perpetuation alone.12”
― Martin J. Rees, On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

“A feature of science is that as the frontiers of our knowledge are extended, new mysteries, just beyond the frontiers, come into sharper focus”
― Martin J. Rees, On the Future: Prospects for Humanity