"We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action."

-- George Wald

#Decision Quotes #Earth Quotes #Information Quotes

“The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.”
“There are those that hate and those that love, it all works out the same.”
“Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.”
“The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar”
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”

Source : "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.
“I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.”

Source : John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232
“Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.”
“Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.”

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