Calamity Quote by Helen Keller

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away…

— Carl Sagan

“New knowledge—new wisdom—in realms we have never dreamed of before. It may lure us away from the dangers we have encountered: for certainly nothing…

— Arthur C. Clarke

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building…

— Mao Zedong

“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where life is…

— Carl Sagan

We live through sound and light—through our technologies.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We…

— Omar N. Bradley

“The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract…

— Edward Abbey

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.

— Carrie Nugent

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

— Sai Baba

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

— Theodore Roosevelt