#tori

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#arms #assembly #complete #complex #crew

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#chains #knows #laurels #liberty #nothing

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. ↗

— Robert Plant

#find #historian #i #i can #pretty

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

#best #defeat #defeats #each #first

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. ↗

— John Podesta

#dialogue #discussion #facts #gives #hungry

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#assistant #besides #clean #clean up #doing

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#fiction #future #i #magazine #might

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#head #reading #stories #ten

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory