2020 Science Quotes & Sayings

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be. — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

I think that the Apocalypse is going to be in this new way of thinking. Somewhere between now and 2020, there has got to be a break though. Not just in science, we've done that, but a breakthrough in the human mind. — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

Just three or four decades ago, if you wanted to access a thousand core processors, you'd need to be the chairman of MIT's computer science department or the secretary of the US Defense Department. Today the average chip in your cell phone can perform about a billion calculations per second. Yet today has nothing on tomorrow. "By 2020, a chip with today's processing power will cost about a penny," CUNY theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explained in a recent article for Big Think,23 "which is the cost of scrap paper. . . . Children are going to look back and wonder how we could have possibly lived in such a meager world, much as when we think about how our own parents lacked the luxuries - cell phone, Internet - that we all seem to take for granted. — Peter H. Diamandis

If present rates of improvement continue, however, we would expect the cruising range of electric cars, for example, to intersect with the average range demanded in the mainstream market by 2015, and electric vechicle acceleration to intersect with mainstream demands by 2020. — Clayton M Christensen

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. — John Henry Jowett

Brian kept forcing them to go back out on tour. — Geoff Edgers

A scarecrow man came from nowhere to dance madly in a hail of bullets. — Charles Allen Gramlich

Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place. They — Lev Grossman