John Boyd Orr Quotes

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• To be rude to someone is not my nature.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Nature
  • Someone
  • Rude

• I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Car
  • Moment
  • Planning

• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Food
  • Universe

• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Nature
  • Clarity
  • Uncertainty

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Science

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Fear
  • Hands
  • Cruelty

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Mother Teresa
  • Charles Manson

• I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Romance
  • Controls
  • Beasts

• In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

  

  John Boyd Orr
  • Nature
  • Science