Monday 26 April 2010

Quotes and Sketches








Quotes


Nicole Kuepper
 "I love working with passionate people who want to help address climate change and poverty by thinking and experimenting outside the square"  

by Nicole Kuepper





Charles Darwin

After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject... from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision."    


by Darwin's opening paragraph to The Origin of Species, 1859

"...is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on earth. It helps us understand our origins."

by Julian Huxley's comes from his work, Evolutionary Humanism (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1992.)
comment to Charles Darwin





Stephen Hawking


"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."





"Many people have asked me why I am taking this flight. I am doing it for many reasons. First of all, I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."


by Stephen Hawking
An interview from The Daily Telegraph





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