# Quote — Fredric Brown, The Lights in the Sky are Stars

> I thought of the distant future and the things we’d have, and discounted my wildest guesses as inadequate. Immortality? Achieved in the nineteenth millennium X.R. and discarded in the twenty-third because it was no longer necessary. Reverse entropy to rewind the universe? Obsolete with the discovery of nolanism and the concurrent cognate in the quadrate decal. Sounds wild? How would the word quantum or the concept of a matter-energy transformation sound to a Neanderthaler? We’re Neanderthalers, to our descendants of a hundred thousand years from now. You’ll sell them short to make the wildest guess as to what they’ll do and what they’ll be.
>
> The stars? Hell, yes. They’ll have the stars.

- Author: [Fredric Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown.md)
- Book: [The Lights in the Sky are Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/the-lights-in-the-sky-are-stars.md)
- Page: 244
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/the-lights-in-the-sky-are-stars/i-thought-of-the

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