“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
