"In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy."

-- James Bryant Conant

#Country Quotes #Educational Quotes #Science Quotes

“I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.”
“If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.”
“We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.”

Source : "The Atonement: All for All". Bruce C. Hafen’s speech at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2004.
“The first time I took my daughters to the ocean - and I love the ocean but where we swim is very rough, very New England, rip tide, not messing around ocean - and a thought arrived: I was asking my daughters to slowly recognize death, just dip their toes in its fathomless edge, to know it is there, even in the night when we don't see it and that it, in its mystery and largeness, in its terror, is the thing that makes life precious, magnificent and full of never-ending curiosity.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.”
“Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.”
“There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.”

Source : Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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