Quotes of: Bertrand-russell Keyword

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

Jim Fowler

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Jim Fowler

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

Jack Hanna

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Jack Hanna

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Karen Horney

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

Helen Prejean

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

Mark Carwardine

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Kenneth R. Miller

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

Nalini Nadkarni

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

Sylvia Earle

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

William Bligh

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

John Burdett

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.

Margaret Wertheim

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

Mitchell Reiss