#stem

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#contradictions #human #human life #life #system

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ↗

— Bill Gates

#co2 #create #electricity #emerging #energy

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. ↗

— Bill Gates

#between #bureaucrat #draw #line #magic

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#criminal justice #criminal justice system #figure #i #i think

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #black #capitalist #center #century

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers. ↗

— John Stossel

#efficient #government #kinds #lawyers #more

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. ↗

— Walter Lang

#candidates #exists #life #likely #mars