#plane

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#disappear #few #humanity #insects #land

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#century #challenges #economic #economic situation #improve

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#exceed #exceeds #genes #life #likely

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#choice #huge #increasingly #intelligent #jail

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#feel #invincible #life #lined #performances

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#back #bad #because #bonds #cataclysmic

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#extraordinarily #gases #plane #polarization #rotation

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#any #choices #compassion #go #improve

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#become #champion #friends #him #i

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#anybody #before #black #folks #history