"Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists."

-- Aubrey de Grey

#Keys Quotes #Research Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“I am very quick to judge.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.
“The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.”
“Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press
“I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.”
“The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.”

Source : Jason Evert (2014). “Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves”, p.55, Totus Tuus Press
“Water for me is so essential, like swimming.”
“New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.”

Source : "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.
“The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.”

Source : Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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