The Brexiteers promised their supporters wonderful things, almost none of which can ever come true. The billions that London transfers to Brussels… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Since you (US "drug tsar" McCaffrey) control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2… — James P. Gray Copy Share Image
Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's… — R. Stanley Williams Copy Share Image
More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to… — Louise Burfitt-Dons Copy Share Image
It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Between 2013 and 2015, the wealthiest 14 people saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is their wealth increase, got it?… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks,… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can… — Larry Stockstill Copy Share Image
What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
On top of that, illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year. And this is what we get. For… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions.… — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“You are immortal; you’ve existed for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child… — Jai Courtney Copy Share Image
The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
We are killing our host the planet Earth… I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
