Maurice Wilkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.

  • Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

  • Example is leadership.

  • If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.

  • I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

  • The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

  • The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

  • Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

  • the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

  • Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.