"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".
"Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces."
"The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers"
"No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen."
I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone
"The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure."
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
"Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today."
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."
Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
"Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way."
"You are joy. Look for your joy. Reach for your joy. Experience your joy."
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.
"I am a fox", the fox said."
True respect comes from earning honors, not just having them.
It is clear that some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
“Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.”
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
"Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind, for they are the weeds that strangle confidence."
We are what we repeatedly do.
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled."
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
a house divided against itself cannot stand i believe this government cannot endure permanently halfslave and halffree i do not expect the union to be dissolvedi do not expect the house to fall but i do expect it will cease to be divided it will become all one thing or all the other.
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
“The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's well accepted. I mean, it's not politically controversial that this is a great humanitarian effort. But budgets are very very tight.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.
"He who never says "no" is no true man."
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Law is like a mind without strong emotions.
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.
"Your emotions are your guidance system."
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.
If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.
"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
"Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun."
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
“By working honestly eight hours a day, you may eventually become the boss and work twelve hours a day.”
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.
"We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness."
I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it
"To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down."
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."
I hate girls that giggle all the time... You hate any girl that David looks at.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
“The destiny of man is to be more and more human.”
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
"The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you."
If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
"Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena."
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.
"You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking."
"The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway."
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
"The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house."
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Man by nature wants to know.
"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought."
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.
