Famous quotes containing the words galactic and/or civilization:
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)