“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” TryingDoeHardNatureMankindHuman NatureDependsSucceedExperimentsHardshipSpectacularBest Nature Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.” ShouldHardLandMankindSurprisingFrontiers Book:Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy Source: Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy
“He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.” IfsMenKindHardWholePainReadingLeftLanguageNationsMy OwnMankindParticularHarderDoctrineDemonstrationOrderly Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition
“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsWarHardLightFilmDarkProgressMankindCenturyHard WorkHollywoodClaimsRationalAppealsWar Of The WorldsSensibleArtificialWorld War IDeliciousEquationsBostonSmackFirst World WarPerversityArcadesMayerNickelodeonArtificial Light Author:Edward Jay Epstein