“Scientists need to try to be better, society needs to try to be better.”
When I see a map of the world, I am reminded of the importance of working for peace in our time.
The mind once expanded to the dimension of a larger idea never returns to its original size.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something.
- Carl Sagan
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
- John Lennon
The most difficult thing of all is to see is what is right in front of your eyes.
- Goethe
If, as most of us believe, we have the power to shape the world according to our visions and desires then how come we have collectively made such a mess of it? Our social and physical world can and must be made, re-made, and, if that goes awry, re-made yet again. Where to begin and what is to be done are the key questions.
- David Harvey
To see the truth makes a huge difference in your world; to become the truth is the real goal, because that is the real you.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
You don’t have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they do.
- Mark Victor Hansen
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Ghandi
Somebody needed to do something, and it was incredibly pathetic that it had to be us.
- Jerry Garcia
After hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity.
– Albert Einstein
The true value of energy to society is the net energy, which is that after the energy costs of getting and concentrating that energy are subtracted.
- H.T. Odum
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
- Henry Ford
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard Feynman
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
- Peter Borden
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O’Connor
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Friedrich Engels
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
- Peter Ustinov
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.
- P. J. Plauger
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
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