Eco Quote by Frances Moore Lappé

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well…

— Bill Bryson

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A…

— Donella Meadows

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there…

— Jim Peebles

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

— Simon Sinek

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

— Alan Rickman

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

— Leonard Susskind

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human…

— Kevin Kelly

“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

— Boyan Slat