Famous quotes containing the words galactic and/or civilization:
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistoryhorse-shoe crabs of the cosmic sceneand something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated
classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
—William James (18421910)