David Bodanis Quotes

#1. And I think he's been very keen to do that.

Robbie Coltrane

#2. America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Russel Honore

#3. [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

Marquis De Condorcet

#4. I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

David Bodanis

#5. You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. To possess another language is to possess another soul.

John Le Carre

#7. Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.

David Bodanis

#8. I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people.

Sheryl Crow

#9. A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

David Bodanis

#10. The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.

Mark Helprin

#11. Do you know where you are going? Do you know what you are going to do? Do you know what you are going to say? Sometimes you better know nothing and flow freely just like a river, not knowing where to go, not knowing what to do, not knowing what to say!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

Jonathon Porritt

#13. Thousands of candles can be lit by just one candle, and the life of that candle will not be shorter because of it. Happiness is never diminished by being shared.

Francesc Miralles

#14. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

#15. I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

Ted Turner

#16. I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

Mallory Ortberg

#17. Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Lillian Smith

#18. I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.

Daniel Tosh