Inspirational Quotes

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

~ Barack Obama

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.

~ Bill Bryson

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.

~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.

~ Richard Dawkins

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

~ Yann Martel

Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Unified thinking without borders in apparent dimensions can only be strengthened when focused collectively 'internally'.

~ Aainaa-Ridtz

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.

~ Freeman Dyson

I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I can live. Of course it is not important if I die, because this is going to happen anyway. I know my purpose, my purpose is: How will my life or death impact the lives of others?

~ Samad Behrangi

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them

~ Otto Weininger

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.

~ Albert Einstein

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.

~ Paulo Coelho

The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom.

~ Rsd

Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without both apprehension and adventure; they were giants on the earth in those days.

~ J.e. Gordon

We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

~ Bernard Lown

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

~ Richard Feynman

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

~ Euripides

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

~ Juan Enriquez

Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds.

~ George Gordon Byron

Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Even if ninety-nine percent of what you discover is later proven wrong, it is the one percent that is right that matters.

~ Steven Magee

The stars of heaven gives light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Can a broken cistern hold water?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And when you lay in bed with your wife,are you mentally there or with the women on TV? Or the women who you've been intimate with though the screens? You not only compare your wife to these women but also love her as though she was someone elsePhysically present when making love to her but mentally absent from herYou kiss her lips while your heart kisses the screen woman

~ Amby C. Ezem

The problem with all fields of research is that people are impatient. It a particular line of enquiry seems to be making progress, we continue down the line, but if it seems to be getting nowhere, we abandon it. This is a problem because the route to the future is often tortuous. Things seems to be moving towards the goal but then unexpectedly snake off in the wrong direction. Initially unproductive approaches can often turn out to be the only ones that lead to the desired destination.

~ Steve Grand

The mind you use to try to see your true self does not recognise if it has never seen. Once you stop looking within and realise you are the one doing the looking to recognise yourself, the mind will understand.

~ Dee-Anne Hayes

Mother Nature continues in motion while your mind is segmented with probabilities. Remembering your night dreams shows exactly this - fleeting scenes of experience with nothing in between. Dee-anne Hayes

~ Dee-Anne Hayes

The sap is nourish from the root.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a 100 year life would be 0.2 seconds.

~ Max Tegmark

In these days, when there is a tendency to specialize so closely, it is well for us to be reminded that the possibilities of being at once broad and deep did not pass with Leonardo da Vinci or even Benjamin Franklin.

~ Jimmy Soni

If you believe you can change—if you make it a habit—the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs—and becomes automatic—it’s not only real, it starts to seem inevitable.

~ Charles Duhigg

... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved organs: on-board computers, evolved to help us survive in a world (...) where the objects that mattered to our survival were neither very large nor very small; a world where things either stood still or moved slowly compared with the speed of light; and where the very improbable could safely be treated as impossible. Our mental burka window is narrow because it didn't need to be any wider in order to assist our ancestors to survive.

~ Richard Dawkins

At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.

~ Leonard Susskind

CONSIDER THIS When things do go wrong, ask yourself whether you could have prevented it by being unhappy.

~ Loretta Graziano Breuning

We are surrounded by evil forces in our daily lives. We must be wise enough to recognize them. Strong enough to resist them and resolute enough to destroy them.

~ J.e.holling

Breakthroughs arise when someone can combine many ideas together. Think broadly, not deeply.

~ Joshua Krook

So, look at the world around you, and if you notice things that don't seem right - injustices, inefficiencies, or just oddities - investigate them further. Think about why and how those things might happen and what you could do to change them for the better. Test your ideas by trying new things, making more observations, refining your models, and repeating the process. And when you find something that works to explain or improve your situation, tell everyone about it, so we can all benefit.

~ Chad Orzel

We are what we build

~ Lois Farfel Stark

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera

~ Arno Rafael Minkkinen