Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Michael Moorcock

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• Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • World
  • Terror
  • Miserable