Home / Quotes / Quote by Ingemar Stenmark

Quote by Ingemar Stenmark

“I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.”

Author

Born on March 18, 1956, Ingemar Stenmark is a renowned alpine skier. He is highly respected in the skiing world for his exceptional skills and numerous victories in international competitions. more

“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?”

Ifs World Choices Felt Mankind Waste Resources Substance Exhausted Finite Consuming Prospects Multiplying Yeast Brewers Vat

Author:Farley Mowat

“Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.”

“Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.”

Humanity Universe Stars

Author:Phil Plait

“The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.”

Feels Wells Brain Worst Stupid Boring Awful Bored Resigned Worst Day

Book:Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.”

Wells Sometimes Theory Medicine Patient Treated Spite Fashionable Get Well

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.”

Missing Activity Standards Research Discovery Tradition Accounts Impression Usual Novelty Journalistic Flashy Newsworthy

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.”

Source Concepts Opposites Method Defined

Author:Thomas Piketty

“The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.”

Reason Voice Persistent Voice Of Reason

Author:Sigmund Freud

“From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.”

World Believe Important Today I Believe Subjects Industry Politician Benefits Let Me Investment Backgrounds Bad Things Commerce Compulsory Today's World

Author:Margaret Thatcher

Quote by Ingemar Stenmark

Author

You May Also Like