“To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.” StatesPlanetsGoes OnAchievementStupidityWelfareWelfare StateGreat Achievement Author:George Mikes
“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.” FirstsLooksSpaceCitiesWonderGenerationsPlanetsWalkingLuckyMoonAchievementAppreciationBrokeAccomplishmentAssuredDescendantsStar GazingAudacity Author:Walter Cronkite
“The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.” ImportantHumanityOpportunityVisionForeverPlanetsAchievementUnlimitedApolloDemonstratingChained Author:Neil Armstrong
“That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.” Has BeensFactsAgePlanetsRevolutionAchievementDeterminationStonesSpeciesEmptinessDigitalFloodMagnificentNothingnessIndustrial RevolutionGreat AchievementStone Age Author:Alan Lightman
“There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.” MindFirstsHumansLittlesHumanityNextHuman BeingsDoubtPlanetsAchievementMarsLanding Author:Buzz Aldrin
“It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.” MenEarthMotherWonderAliveRocksPlanetsBirthOne DayMoonAchievementIncrediblesCaughtLandscapeStaringObsessedOur TimeDryCosmosGlimpseGatheringAstonishingMother EarthDesolateGreatest Achievement Author:Jon Stewart
“Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.” PeopleFeelsCountryHomePastImaginationAliveWonderfulStrangePlanetsAchievementComfortableCreatingAncientMemorableJapanCaptureMixturesTouringMystiqueCyberpunkBackdropSaturation Author:Corey Taylor
“The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.” EarthNaturePlanetsAchievementBreathsSunlightInfantSpunWeb Of Life Author:Preston Cloud
“Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.” LoveTwoGodValuesLonelinessPlanetsAchievementCreatingSeekingValuableGod LoveTwo ThingsPopeGod's LovePouringWinos Book:Credo Source: Credo
“With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'” EyeSpecialEffectsPlanetsAchievementDawnVisualsMassiveApesDoseSpecial EffectsPopping Author:Leonard Maltin
“The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.” LeftExistencePlanetsMembersAchievementPaperDiscoveryTasksMathematicsMathAstronomySpotsMathematicalDramaticRoutineMathematicianLocationPencilsObserversPointingSpectacularTelescopesSolar SystemNeptune Book:The World of Mathematics Source: The World of Mathematics