"We are the only instrument for understanding the……" — Jonathan Nolan
"We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings."
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41 Quotes by Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan has 41 quotes on this site.
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Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.
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We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look…
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I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use…
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Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind…
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Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find…
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I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and…
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I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I…
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One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When…
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I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final…
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You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in…
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We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon,…
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I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which…
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
— Karen Armstrong
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
— David Attenborough
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
— David Attenborough
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
— Douglas Adams
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