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• No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

  Maya Angelou

• Predicting the future of synthetic biology is like asking Bardeen, the inventor of the transistor, to predict the iPhone in 1948. We are at the dawn of a new industry; which is beginning to provide solutions to some of society’s most wicked…

  Tom Knight

• Demonstrate a curiosity to learn more information. Openly admit when you don’t know something, know and operate within your limits. Break down complex problems and cut straight to a solution. Have an acute awareness of your own thought…

  Sean Kernan

• The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

  Albert Einstein

• I think introverts can do quite well. If you’re clever, you can learn to get the benefits of being an introvert, which might be, say, being willing to go off for a few days and think about a tough problem, read everything you can, push yourself…

  Bill Gates

• 1989, United States: The most generations alive in a single family has been seven. The youngest great-great-great-great-grandparent being Augusta Bunge (USA) aged 109 years 97 days, followed by her daughter aged 89, her grand-daughter aged 70, her…

  Guinness Book of World Records

• The only point of learning from past events is to better predict future events. That’s the whole point of memory. It’s not just a library where we file away everything that’s happened to us. And the reason why we need to keep a record of…

  Mark Solms

• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

• If science is a ‘commitment to truth’ shall we cite all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists? Of course not. It’s not science vs Philosophy ... It’s Science + Philosophy. Elevate your thinking and consciousness. When you…

  MC Hammer

• Being a knowledgeable person, may mean knowing a lot of stuff, but it certainly means knowing who knows and who does not know.

  Steven Shapin

• Absence of evidence regarding life elsewhere is not evidence of its absence

  Avi Loeb

• We are as gods and might as well get good at it

  Stewart Brand

• ONE ART The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing…

  Elizabeth Bishop

• Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountains and the sea, are excellent school- masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  Sir John Lubbock

• Does anything I have to say as an academic matters? Does your work affect your students’ lives for the better, either equipping them with skills that will increase their own chances of success or simply helping them see the world in a different…

  Rebecca Schuman

• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard Feynman

• Why does anyone care about the old gear? I'll put in my two bits worth--the old backpacking gear from the 50s, 60s & 70s represented an era of freedom for a lot of people--a freedom to get out and explore anywhere from the woods behind your house…

  Bruce B. Johnson

• The writers of tomorrow who combine unique self-expression with simplicity are the ones who will break boundaries

  Concoda

• For me, science and skepticism were the means to have the greatest spiritual experiences of my life. And every one of them was about having a somewhat deeper sense of the romance of being alive in the Cosmos, and the beauty of nature. The universe…

  Ann Druyan

• “In The Time of Pandemic” And the people stayed home. And they read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some…

  Kitty O’Meara