Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into which her two inner companions of the solar system have already plunged to a fiery death. The Twilight of the Gods is history; and our planet drifts on and on into that oblivion from which nothing escapes, to which time itself may be dedicated in the final cosmic reckoning.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.