"The Al Gore movie cashed in on his personality and the question of where he had been in the six years since his failed US presidential bid. The same movie starring any NASA scientist would have lost money."

-- Randy Olson

#Personality Quotes #Presidential Quotes #Scientist Quotes

“No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.”
“If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.”
“Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”
“My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.”
“On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.”
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.”

Source : James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”
“Dreams are sent by God.”

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