Nicolas Antoine Boulanger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several years beforehand by heat waves, by winds, by meteorites, in short, by an infinity of phenomena.
-- Nicolas Antoine Boulanger

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

Nicolas Antoine Boulanger famous quotes

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