Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.


Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity (ed. Ballantine Books, 1991) - ISBN: 9780345366085


Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.