The expansion of life, moving out from Earth into its inheritance, is an even greater theme than the expansion of England across the Atlantic. As Hakluyt wrote that there is under our noses the great and ample country of Virginia, I am saying that there is under our noses the territory of nine planets, forty moons, ten thousand asteroids and a trillion comets.


Roots - Infinite in All Directions (1988)

Freeman Dyson Quotes

The expansion of life, moving out from Earth into its inheritance, is an even greater theme than the expansion of England across the Atlantic. As...

The expansion of life, moving out from Earth into its inheritance, is an even greater theme than the expansion of England across the Atlantic. As...

The expansion of life, moving out from Earth into its inheritance, is an even greater theme than the expansion of England across the Atlantic. As...

The expansion of life, moving out from Earth into its inheritance, is an even greater theme than the expansion of England across the Atlantic. As...