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socialistfuck  ·  3873 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's your favorite passage or quote?

"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking." -Stephen Hawking





user-inactivated  ·  3873 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know this quote from the Pink Floyd song. Amazing.

user-inactivated  ·  3873 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've always found this quote extremely poignant because of the lengths Hawking himself must go to just to speak. Great choice.