As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.”
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”