People Quotes

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

~ Aleister Crowley

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

~ J. Paul Getty

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

~ Aldous Huxley

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

~ Jill Scott

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

~ Dominic Monaghan

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

~ José Rizal

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

~ Henry Cantwell Wallace

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.

~ Doug Harvey

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

~ Albert Einstein

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

~ Nancy Banks-Smith

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

~ Donald Knuth

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

~ Temple Grandin

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

~ Bill Nye

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

~ Janine Benyus

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

~ Tim Burton

It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.

~ Rupaul

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

~ C. V. Raman

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

~ Stephen Hawking

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

~ Mae Jemison

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

~ Paul Dirac

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

~ J. Michael Straczynski

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

~ Donald Knuth

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

~ Craig Venter

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

~ Ray Kurzweil

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

~ Nhat Hanh

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

~ Henry Rollins

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

~ Bonnie Bassler

People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.

~ Nick Hanauer

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

~ Jesse Kellerman

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

~ Brendan Iribe

More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.

~ Rex Tillerson

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

~ James Dyson

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

~ Bill Nye

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

~ Huston Smith

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

~ Afrika Bambaataa

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

~ Charles Kettering