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Martin Rees Quotes

We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

Martin Rees

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: June 23, 1942

Topics

Science Challenge Back Know Why Big

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Siri Hustvedt

Dead Variety Computer Led Ends

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Simon Kuznets

Growth Inequality Country Economic

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

Tom Hodgkinson

Time Doing Lying Nothing See Songs

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Roger von Oech

World Think Look Take Advantage Take

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

Robyn Davidson

Live City Desert You Lose Out

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

Roisin Murphy

Yourself World Express Yourself Being

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

Michael King

History Great Common Sense New Talk

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Person More Danger Away Who Than

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

Diane Ackerman

Nature God Build Try More Outside

That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

Brian Dietzen

Work Love Good Ride I Am Blessed

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Water People Confused Long Goal Get

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

Sebastian Lelio

You Intuition Order Expression Film