Engineering Quote by Peter D. Ward

“We are living in an age in which scientific advances give us new opportunities to live. Seize them.”

— Jessica Queller

“We could not 'break' nature if we spent one million years trying. This planet is a speck, and we are specks on a speck.…

— Charlie Jane Anders

“When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for…

— Steven Magee

“It is well known that humans cannot survive long term in any environment that is not on the surface of planet Earth.”

— Steven Magee

“We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.”

— Timothy Ferris

“The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We…

— Linda Mason Hunter

“Why stay we on earth except to grow?”

— Robert Browning

“I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.”

— Theodore Von Karman

We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what…

— Hope Jahren

“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life.”

— Anonymous