Rick Tumlinson Quotes
It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
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Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
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Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say
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It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.
