I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
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