Epoch Quotes - Page 8

• Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

  Burt Rutan

  Government, Space, Effort

  "Private spacecraft blast offs June 21" by Leonard David, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Black, Machines

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Sacrifice, Fate

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter III, Aphorism 55, 1886.

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• What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Age, Prudes

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.75, Routledge

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• Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.

  Don Cupitt

  Past, Reality, Years

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species with amnesia; that we've lost the record of our story going back thousands of years before so-called history began, and I think that if we could go back to that dark epoch, we would discover many astounding things about ourselves.

  Graham Hancock

  Dark, Thinking, Years

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• If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

  Georges Braque

  Order, Ideas, May

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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