I found this list of quotes years ago that includes many statements by very prominent, very intelligent people speaking of items relating to scientific advancement that will never work or never happen. It’s quite humorous, but it says a lot I think about how much we have to learn in the future.

THIRST, verb intransitive 1. To experience a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink. 2. To have a vehement desire for any thing. When one is thirsty, but just barely, they will refuse perfectly clean water on account…

It always amazes me how we acknowledge the historical certainty of the rise and fall of nations in the past, but we don’t seem to think that the same fate is an eventuality today. Sure, men wanted to take over…