Tommy Koh quotes

  • I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment.
    -- Tommy Koh

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  • The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

  • Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

  • It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

  • The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

  • All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

  • India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

  • The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

  • The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

  • It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

  • When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

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