Corporations focus on profit statements (quarterly or annual).
Politicians focus on the next election (2 or 4 years away).
Unions focus on where their members’ next meals are coming from (weeks or months).
Religion ignores the present and focuses on the hereafter (eternity).
The only human enterprise that’s paying attention to the time frame where we’ll be spending most of our lives (and our children will be spending all of theirs) is science.
Corporations focus on profit statements (quarterly or annual).
Politicians focus on the next election (2 or 4 years away).
Unions focus on where their members’ next meals are coming from (weeks or months).
Religion ignores the present and focuses on the hereafter (eternity).
The only human enterprise that’s paying attention to the time frame where we’ll be spending most of our lives (and our children will be spending all of theirs) is science.