Quotes
"Mother nature is just chemistry, biology and physics. That's all she is. You cannot sweet-talk her. You cannot spin her. You cannot tell her that the oil companies say climate change is a hoax. No, Mother Nature is going to do whatever chemistry, biology and physics dictate. Mother nature always bats last, and she always bats 1,000."
"China is just beginning to move from copying to creating. The last time they were in full creative mode they invented paper, the compass and gun powder."
"We need to use the one faculty that distinguishes us as human beings--the ability to imagine. We need to fully grasp the non-linear, unmanageable, climate events that could unfold in our lifetime. because if we hit the wall, there will be no seat belts or air bags, and we will end up being a bad biological experiment on the planet."
"You know, if you jump off the top floor of an eighty story building, you can actually feel like you're flying for seventy-nine stories. It's the sudden stop at the end that gets you."
"We are either going to be losers or heroes--there's no room anymore for anything in between,"
"We cannot continue to use eighteenth century economics, and nineteenth century engineering, to solve twentieth century problems. We need to move from EGOnomics to ECOnomics." Sc3 Congress, 2009
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“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.””
—Stella Chess (20th century)