“In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.” WorldYearsRememberWinningSportsHeroYears AgoGoldChampionMedalGymnasticsGold MedalsWorld Champions Author:Lavinia Milosovici
“If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.” IfsWorldWayYearsTodayScienceViewsReturnYears AgoMathematicsIntuitionPhysicsExperimentsMathematicalConsistentMysticalPrecisionSophisticationWorld View Author:Fritjof Capra
“My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.” WorldYearsLongSometimesKidsWantedMotherMillionsOfficeLong TimeDaughterYears AgoAmanda Author:Phil Mickelson
“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.” WorldYearsSelfScienceFoundBornForgetCreativeBirthHonorFameResearchYears AgoScientistSlaveryFortuneSouthCaringHelpfulCentreFound Happiness Author:George Washington Carver
“Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and is likely to go into decline in the very foreseeable future. There is only a small probability that Saudi Arabia will ever deliver the quantities of petroleum that are assigned to it in all the major forecasts of world oil production and consumption.” IfsWorldYearsFactsMajorsYears AgoProductionsOilQuantityDeclineConsumptionVolumeProbabilityArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisForecastsPetroleumArabianPeak OilOil Production Author:Matthew Simmons
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.” WorldShouldYearsFirstsLooksMomentsFeelingsEyeEarthRememberScienceLostWonderRichFieldsStrangeDiscoveryYears AgoLaysRewardsSevenWinterDelightExperimentsSnowDelicateSeven YearsRevealingMagneticDoorstepNew EyesProtonMagnetic Fields Author:Edward Mills Purcell
“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.” IfsWorldShouldYearsBelieveChildrenLittlesCountryFacesScienceI BelieveSocialSimpleLeaderHistoryTeachingModernTomorrowFutureTrainingResearchDiscoveryYears AgoLettersMethodEnormousBritainMore TimeDevotedSocial ChangeTranslationsLaboratoryDescribingDiscussingPresent TimeTeaching ChildrenJuliusFuture LeadersModern English Author:Ronald Sydney Nyholm
“I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.” WorldYearsFactsTodayPastSportsBreakRecordsYears AgoDawnInspirational SportsSwimmerWorld Records Author:Dawn Fraser