"By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources."

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Source : Denis Hayes (1977). “Energy: The Solar Prospect”, Worldwatch Inst

Denis Hayes

#Years Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Energy Quotes

“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.”
“The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.”
“I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.”
“As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.”

Source : Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.24, Papadakis Publisher
“At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.”
“To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.”
“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press
“Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.”

Source : Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.58, Macmillan

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