Michael Pollan Quotes

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Michael Pollan

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My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

Ang Lee

CultureActingRegardHighly

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

KnowledgePerspectiveWorldKnow

Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.

Robin DiAngelo

SocietyEnergyFaceRealityRace

There is nothing 'conservative' at all about Putin's cause. What he is offering is a synthetic ideology called Eurasianism, composed for him by Dugin, as a means of uniting all the anti-Western movements of the world under Kremlin control.

Robert Zubrin

ControlWorldNothingConservative

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Jon Anderson

SuccessYourselfPeopleBelieveYou

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Douglas Coupland

LifeDreamsFlyingDoingYouMean

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

Bonnie Hammer

ScienceTimeMoviesScience Fiction

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

Bruce Barton

BreakfastLunchYouSomethingGoing

Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'

Asma Jahangir

SucceedBetterSecurityTurnBeing

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

William Klein

NegativeWhateverWantedDarkroom

I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.

Sylvia Earle

LoveFishBodyDreamDownSkin

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

Phil Bredesen

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