Ru Freeman Quotes

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!

When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.

I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction.

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.