A great quote I just picked up from the header of George Monbiot’s blog this evening while reading his post regarding Channel 4’S Problem With Science (it was Channel 4 that produced “The Great Global Warming Swindle”) Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new and [...]
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Tell people…
Posted in Global Climate Disruption, Great Quotations on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking Different
Posted in Global Climate Disruption, Great Quotations on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A television commercial very well worth remembering. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. [...]
A couple of very interesting and important quotes for us to think about today from two of our founding fathers.
Posted in Great Quotations on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of very interesting and important quotes for us to think about today from two of our founding fathers. Bejamin Franklin in 1759, well before this county was born: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” And James Madison at the Constitutional Convention: [...]
The age of the earth is now established beyond any reasonable doubt as very great, yet in the United States millions of Fundamentalists still stoutly defend the naive view that it is relatively short…
Posted in Great Quotations, Recommended Reading on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another great quote by Francis Crick from his book The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul: “The age of the earth is now established beyond any reasonable doubt as very great, yet in the United States millions of Fundamentalists still stoutly defend the naive view that it is relatively short, an opinion deduced [...]
People are happy to contemplate the limitless powers of God….
Posted in Great Quotations, Recommended Reading on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Francis Crick the great molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist who was one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule wrote in his book Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature : “To me it is remarkable that this astonishing discovery, the vastness and emptiness of space, has not attracted the imaginative attention of [...]
Some great quotes from William Greider to inspire our thinking
Posted in Great Quotations, On Liberalism, Recommended Reading on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some great quotes from William Greider author of The Soul of Capitalism : Opening Paths to a Moral Economy and Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy to inspire our thinking: “If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or [...]
