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)
“We used to speak of Western civilization with great satisfaction. Now we avoid the subject.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)