Petrologist Quotes & Sayings

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs. — Steven Pinker

The American vice is explanation. — Gore Vidal

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. — Samuel P. Huntington

When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . — Albert Pike

When you die, you want to die a beautiful death. But what makes for a beautiful death is not always clear. To die without suffering, to die without causing trouble to others, to die leaving behind a beautiful corpse, to die looking good -- it's not clear what is meant by a beautiful death. Does a beautiful death refer to the way you die or the condition of your corpse after death? This distinction is not clear. And when you start to stretch the image of death to the method of how to dispose of your corpse as befitting your image of death, everything grows completely out of hand. — Shinmon Aoki

All of this,' the prophet said, serene, 'all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, it's all part of a greater plan.'

'You'd be surprised at how little comfort I take from that notion. — Emily St. John Mandel

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward. — Robert A. Heinlein

I remembered when I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trunk as a coffin for the young man I would never be again — Kurt Vonnegut

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper. — January Jones