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“I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.”
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“Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.”
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“Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.”
Source : "Future: A Recent History". Book by Lawrence R. Samuel, p. 92, June 2009.
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“Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.”
Source : The Selfish Gene ch. 1 (1976)
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“To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew.”
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“The past is dead, and has no resurrection.”
Source : Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1541, Delphi Classics
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“I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.”
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“There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It's sad, because she [Eve Plumb] was my best friend. We went through a lot together.”
Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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“"Thinking" is not something we talk about.”
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“In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.”
