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Christopher Wren
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“Architecture has its political Use; public Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth…. Architecture aims at Eternity.”
Christopher Wren (1632–1723) said by 1723 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of Architecture", Parentalia; or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens, comp. by his son Christopher (1750, reprinted 1965), Appendix, p. 351.
“A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.”
Christopher Wren (1632–1723) said by 1723 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College, as quoted in If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens-- where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life, by S…