“The art of hospitality is the genuine warmth and care that one person can show another. The science of hospitality is creating the conditions, the culture, the training, the physical spaces, and the psychological safety, where that art can flourish, consistently and at scale.”
Source: Hospitalicology: The Science of Great Hospitality
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing so some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.”
“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.”
Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North
“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.”
Source: Memoirs of a Polar Bear
“Einstein's secretary once said that if Einstein were born among the polar bears, he would still be Einstein. But unless polar bears were well versed in theoretical physics, that is not true. Einstein would not be Einstein. Which is not to take anything away from Einstein, or the polar bears, but simply to point out that he was part of a creative ecology, and trying to isolate him from it is not only silly but futile.”
Source: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
“The person who doesn't ask questions is the least intelligent one in the room.”
“A curious eye means a hundred eyes!”
“Pero mis brazos insisten en abrazar al mundo
porque aún no les enseñaron
que ya es demasiado tarde.”
Source: Poesía completa
“[T]he going-in attitude of many people is highly predetermined. Some are convinced that eyewitness testimony is reliable, that people do not make things up, that hallucinations or hoaxes on such a scale are impossible, and that there must be a long-standing, high level [...] conspiracy to keep the truth from the rest of us.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Eu poderia viver como qualquer outro cara, mas não. Me permiti te conhecer, me permiti me envolver, me permiti ser quem eu nunca deveria ser, e o seu amor foi a minha sentença de morte.”
Source: Aliens, a Terra não é só os EUA