"In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of..."
"In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign have rushed to claim that the event was caused by anthropogenic global warming, thereby justifying the president's program of crushing the economy with regressive carbon taxes, a supposedly necessary measure to prevent future bad weather."
"Islands are natural workshops of evolution."
"Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous."
"My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena."
"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."
"Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream."
"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do."
"Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system."
"Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited."
"My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science."
"A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is."
"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."
"Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems."
"People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well."
"Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity."
"Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways."
"As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy."
"We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren't problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They'd get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response."
"'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality."
"I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor."
"New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion."
"My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view."
"We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them."
"But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves."
"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
