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Mark Walport Quotes

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 25, 1953

Topics

Technology Science Engineering Doing

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Parents People Us Our About Warned

Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.

Discipline Things Mushrooms List

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.

Sterling K. Brown

Time People Growing Up Slavery Black

I think you have to refill the well at some point.

Think You Point Well I Think Some

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Action Sometimes Others Europe Head

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Hair Winning You Down Games Race

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Alfred Stieglitz

Reality Photography More Real Than

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Learning Perfect Hard Things Keep

When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.

Rickey Henderson

You Want Kid Millionaire

I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it clicks on, I'm somebody else.

Richard Seymour

Good Bad Say Got Somebody Switch

Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid.

Love Fall Need Danger Avoid Assets

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

Walls Saying Musicians America Sales

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