Benjamin Franklin on Future of Science
The rapid progress true science now makes occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter...Agriculture may diminish its Labour and double its Produce; all Diseases may, by sure means, be prevented or cured, not even excepting that of Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian Standard. O that moral Science were in as fair a way of Improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another, and that human Beings would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity.
Notes:
An optimistic vision of the future of man and a lament that he won't be able to see it.
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The Autobiography and Other WritingsSchemas
Seeing Farther Through Science
Visionary memes about the future of the human race and our potential.
Be Optimistic
Science is making the world better. Keep your chin up and look forward to the exiting adventures it's bringing you. 