Approach Quote by Swami Vivekananda

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and…

— Swami Vivekananda

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible,…

— Albert Camus

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live.…

— Lewis Thomas

It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature],…

— Alain de Botton

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run…

— Richard Dooling

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become…

— Etty Hillesum

The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads…

— James Howard Kunstler

We are not by nature cruel.

— J. M. Coetzee

“Our darkest fiction is full of Orwellian dystopias, shadowy cabals, and mind-controlling supervillains. But it turns out that the brainless, microscopic, single-celled organisms that…

— Ed Yong

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds…

— Richard Dooling

“It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. It is more likely…

— Carl Sagan

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly…

— Stephen Hawking