S R Nathan Quotes
Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.
My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.
I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along
Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.
Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .
I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality.
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.
Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.
The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.