Melisande Laroche

"Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective." - Commissioner Pravin Lal, "A Social History of Planet"

"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. ... in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts." - Academician Prokhor Zakharov