Steven Johnson, How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World Quotes
The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?
Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.
...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.
That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.
