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It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan, 1899

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688