"If you look at it you see a dot, that's here, that's home, that's us, on it everyone you have ever heard of, every human being who ever lived lived out there lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and every forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and every peasant, every young couple in love, every young hopeful child, every mother and every father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there, on a moat of dust suspended in a sunbeam." - Carl Sagan
"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
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Limits-how close can we get?
Non-FictionThis book is based around the idea of exploring how far can humanity come before we can't go any further and on how far have we come already?