Katherine Neville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  • Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

  • The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

  • CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

  • The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.

  • Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

  • It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

  • What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

  • We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.

  • Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.