"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future."

--

Source : "Filters Against Folly". Book by Garrett Hardin, 1985.

Garrett Hardin

#Sacrifice Quotes #Deny Quotes #Obligation Quotes

“[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.”
“Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
“I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.”
“I was the kid that wanted to be anonymous in that I'd put a football helmet on and be a member of a team and go out there and maim people. It was a very hard process. It truly was.”

Source : ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.
“Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.”
“There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.”
“From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.”

Source : "Marketing Iraq: Why now?" by William Schneider, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2002.
“It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.248, The Floating Press

You may also like:

Aldo Leopold
Author
Barry Commoner
Biologist
Donella Meadows
Environmental Writer
Elinor Ostrom
Economist
Julian Simon
Professor
Paul R. Ehrlich
Population Biologist
Peter Singer
Philosopher
Rachel Carson
Marine biologist
Thomas Malthus
Scholar