Rees Scientific Quotes & Sayings

God's sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it. — R.C. Sproul

You're the world I have," she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety. — Diana Gabaldon

If you reward candor, you'll get it. — Jack Welch

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper. — William E. Rees

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life. — Vita Sackville-West

I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat. — Xavier Niel

Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. — Elizabeth Warren

The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, 'clean energy' research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues. — Martin Rees

The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest. — Martin Rees

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge. — Bruce Schneier

With faith, you can find your fate. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed. — Martin Rees

Dude, you totally pulled the 'coma card' to get her to marry you!" Cole bursts out laughing. — Kimberly Lauren

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community. — Martin Rees

You've got to be careful smoking weed. It causes memory loss. And also, it causes memory loss. — David Letterman

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms. — Giacomo Casanova

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind. — Laozi

People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present. — N. T. Wright