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)
“You can’t say that civilization don’t advance ... for in every war they kill you a new way.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)