Joseph Needham famous quotes

03-25-2025

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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.
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; itâ€™s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of ***** if you're lucky.
Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.
My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

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