Author: Carleton S. Coon

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• Ben Bova (2)
  • IN: The Precipice (2001) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …some men have already embarked on a bold new adventure, the conquest of outer space. This is a healthy sign, a clear indication that some of us are still feral men, unwilling to domesticate ourselves by any kind of bondage, even that of the spatial limitations of our planet’s surface.
    FROM: The Story of Man, (1954), Book, US
  • IN: Moonwar (1997) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Once we have lived through the rapid changes that are now marking our transition from the third to the fourth phase of history, from a period of diversification to one of unification, we shall be squarely faced with a number of serious problems… It has been shown by many social experiments that man cannot control every facet of life. All we can do is to try to isolate the factors that are the keys to the entire structure, and to work on them. These are basically: the conservation of natural resources; power-production; population-control; the full utilization of brainpower; and education. The details of the social structure will fall into place automatically as the end product of all these forces; as they always have done… Political unification of the world is not the first necessary step. By the time it has become possible without turmoil, it will also have become unnecessary.
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