"Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty."

“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”

“The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.”

“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

Source : "Interview with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger". 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.

“...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system”

Source : Richard Heinberg (2010). “Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines”, p.48, New Society Publishers

“If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.”

“I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.”

“Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.”

“Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.”