Time Quote by Charles Wheelan

“Nearly half of all human beings live on less than US$2 a day.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

— Hans Rosling

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“What if we could somehow package the human genome in tiny capsules and send millions of them into space in hopes one might take…

— Dan Brown

“Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and one billion people are mired…

— Barry Asmus

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

— James Wolfensohn

“Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a…

— Eckhart Tolle

I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

— Luis von Ahn

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“We split the atom, we reached the moon, we’ve filled every household and business with more gadgets and gizmos than early sci-fi writers could…

— Max Brooks

[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science.…

— Francis Collins