There Are Many Ways Of Knocking Electrons

We Are Inescapably The Result Of A Long Heritage Of Learning, Adaptation, Mutation And Evolution, The Product Of A History Which Predates Our Birth As A Biological Species And Stretches Back Over Many Thousand Millennia... Going Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With Our Fellow Primates; And Going Still Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With All Other Living Creatures And Plants Down To The Simplest Microbe. The Further Back We Go, The Greater The Difference From External Appearances And Behavior Patterns Which We Observe Today.

The Notion That Not Only The Biopolymer But The Operating Program Of A Living Cell Could Be Arrived At By Chance In A Primordial Organic Soup Here On The Earth Is Evidently Nonsense Of A High Order.

Well, We Now Have Such A Photograph... Has Any New Idea Been Let Loose? It Certainly Has. You Will Have Noticed How Suddenly Everybody Has Become Seriously Concerned To Protect The Natural Environment... It Seems To Me More Than A Coincidence That This Awareness Should Have Happened At Exactly The Moment Man Took His First Step Into Space.

He Who Lives Among Dogs Must Learn To Pant.

The Seemingly Insuperable Difficulties Of Deep-space Travel Suggest An Intention To Keep Us Fixed At Home In Our Own Solar System, And The Physical Nature Of Our Part Of The Universe, As Well As The Basic Rules Of Physics And Chemistry, Have A Warning Look About Them, Like Barriers Designed To Isolate Intelligent Life. This Means That For Us, Unlike The Situation For Humble Microorganisms, Deep-space Travel Is Probably A Stark Impossibility.