At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.
When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.
Woody: All right, that's enough! Look, we're all very impressed with Andy's new toy. Buzz: Toy? Woody: T-O-Y, Toy! Buzz: Excuse me, I think the word you're searching for is "Space Ranger". Woody: The word I'm searching for I can't say because there's...
"The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of t...
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of h...
Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find and fulfil it there. There can be no external way for you to fulfil your mission. The deer grows musk in his own body. He smells it and b...
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
Faith is a fuel to the engine of soul.
Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.
great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.
