"In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded."

-- Ramez Naam

#Technology Quotes #Yield Quotes #Water Quotes

“It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire”
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
“I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.”
“Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.”
“I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.”

Source : Speech at Washington, 27 July 1967, in Washington Post 28 July 1967, p. A7
“We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.”
“Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.”
“Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.”

Source : "'My hands are frozen and my heart races': Andrea Bocelli says crippling stage fright is like an incurable disease" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. February 8, 2013.

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