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Elon Musk
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Walter Lippmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Russell Baker
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Robert Anton Wilson
There is no complete theory of anything.
Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Stephen Jay Gould
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Robert Quillen
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Konrad Lorenz
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
E. B. White
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Louis D. Brandeis
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Stephen Hawking
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Albert Camus
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Erik Erikson
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Sai Baba
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
F. Sionil Jose
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through ...
Josh Homme
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.
M. F. Husain
They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
Norman Mailer
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Trust
Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock ...