Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed-only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars blown about us by the wind and we drink the universe in a glass of rain
I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and – in some mysterious way – significant