Standards Developed

Famous quotes containing the words standards and/or developed:

“As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)