"Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance."

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Source : "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

Aubrey de Grey

#Communication Quotes #Wikipedia Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.”
“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”
“I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.”
“I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.”
“Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.”

Source : Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”
“The painting has a life of its own”
“What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.”
“Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.91, Beacon Press

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