G. Harry Stine quotes

Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.
-- G. Harry Stine

#Future #Adventure #Years

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.
-- G. Harry Stine

#Jobs #Lasers #Invention

Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.
-- G. Harry Stine

#Technology #Years #Revolution

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Our history is not our destiny.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.