“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.” YearsStillsEnergyHoursMillionsTechnologyProduceResearchPercentIraqNineAlternativesHopefulElectricitySolar Power Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.” IfsMenLifeWellsStarsModernProduceConcernCaringNineUselessLaughedDreamerModern Science Book:Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of
“The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.” PeopleHumansThreeEnergySocialPrinciplesProduceMaterialsDependsEvolutionElementsOrganizationBasesRelationFundamentalsThreatNineIntegrationHuman HistoryEcologicalDynamicsBondingFundamental PrinciplesBiological Evolution Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.” SexProduceApproachNineBotherMealsSeventiesBachelorsCookeryPretty WomanGood Meals Author:M. F. K. Fisher
“It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.” IfsWritingTwoBookThreeProduceMonthsPagesResearchNineTake MeThree MonthsNine Months Author:Alan Furst
“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.” TodayEvilRaceMillionsRichWiseSeaMankindProduceSeriousThousandHundredDollarsCharityObstaclesImprovementNineCuresFiftyThrownBeing WiseUnworthy Author:Andrew Carnegie
“I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?” IfsWorldLittlesSaidWarFactsProblemLastsProduceEvidenceTradeNineGuiltyDocumentsSeventiesConvincingParagraphBlairWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterWell SaidGoing To War Author:Robert Fisk