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Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. Herman Kahn
Simple Result Perspective Thought Mistakes Paradox More Failures Due Caused Often Decision-Making Inadequate Social Aspects Utility
The art is long, life is short. Hippocrates
Life Art Life Is Short Long Long Life Short
I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything. Hope Jahren
Future Job Somebody Think Everything Evidence Destroying Future Generations Some Generations Leave Were While Who Cared
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott
Criminal Corporation Instincts Without Person Predatory Form Capital Sufficient
I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right. Ian Dunbar
Me Animal School Animals Met Before Sense Farm Earned Touch He Smartest Since Came Up Privilege Person Quit Taught Common Grew Common Sense Grandfather Ever Right
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Isaac Asimov
You Reputation Obvious Subtlety Pays
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. Jacob Bronowski
Alone Man Animal Every He Traces Leaves Created
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. Jacob Bronowski
Me Pleasure About Taking Knowing Issues Intellectual Being Mean Them Means
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. Jacob Bronowski
Good Man Will Trouble Doubt Dissent Be A Man Him Deal Got Scientist Years Off Left Native Whether Cut Good Deal Activity Last
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. James D. Watson
You Slightly Significant Something Underemployed Necessary
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. James D. Watson
Freedom Together Science Pressure Degree Young Virtual Unprecedented Give Take Put Up Them Turn Researchers Fostering Seclusion Competitiveness
If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. James D. Watson
Truth You People Mind Unfair Evolution Married Open Vegetarian Open Mind Like Accept Exists Discrimination Whether Then Products
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. James Hansen
You Change Churchill Kind Compromise Climate Climate Change Lincoln Where Thing Slavery
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil. James Lovelock
Worth About Pound Pounds Oil Uranium Coal Million
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station. James Lovelock
Sunshine Space Will Big Back Earth Sun Station Deflect Would Would-Be Shade Percent Cheaper Between NASA Up Than Send Orbit Space Station International International Space Station
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. James Lovelock
War Crazy Humanity Earth Sigh Out Relief Would Wiped Were Just Stop Breathe Nuclear Nuclear War Programme
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. James Lovelock
Change Year Changing Our Thousands Thousands Of Years Seeing Lifetimes Takes Also Climate Geological Years Just Happen
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. James Lovelock
Life Dance Own Changes Earth Evolution Emerges More Entity Purposes Environment Clearly Coupled Partners Does Tightly Material Than Adapt
Science always uses metaphor. James Lovelock
Science Always Metaphor Uses
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. James Lovelock
War People Space Cold Cold War Neither Would Russia Been Nor America Sending
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful. James Lovelock
You Change Clever Situation Think Enough Complex Evolved Point Inertia Climate Climate Change Huge Handle Where Anything Meaningful Really Humans
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate. James Rothman
Truth Knowledge Truth Is Some Indirect Nobel Nobel Prize Almost Sort Another Prize Candidate May Anyone Who Receives
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. Jamie Zawinski
Science Engineer Hacker Engineering Software Might
Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it? Jamie Zawinski
You Change Nothing Real Still Question Real Question Stands
I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others. Jane Goodall
Me Dog Long Before Others Only Learned Were Did Personalities Persuade Help Beings
We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. Jane Goodall
Communicate Language Looking Sit Embracing About Know Sounds Lots Discuss As Far As Cannot Far Teach Things Present
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