Top 21 Edith Widder Quotes
#1. Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.
Frederick The Great
#2. Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.
Edith Widder
#3. I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
Edith Widder
#4. We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#5. When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
Bob Saget
#6. We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.
Edith Widder
#7. I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
Edith Widder
#8. The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!
Edith Widder
#9. I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Edith Widder
#10. It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.
Edith Widder
#11. In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.
Edith Widder
#12. A person's heart should be what she was judged by, rather than whose blood ran in her veins.
Melanie Dickerson
#13. Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
Edith Widder
#14. Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.
Edith Widder
#15. It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.
Milton Friedman
#16. I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.
Edith Widder
#17. Poverty appeared first in their meals, then in their shoes, and finally in their thoughts and prayers. Still,
Dominic Smith
#18. Are the computers going to fail? one of the artists asked him, licking ketchup off her thumb. She asked it like she was hoping he'd say yes. Lincoln couldn't remember her name, but she had all-over-the-place hair and big brown eyes. He didn't like thinking about her with an X-Acto knife.
Rainbow Rowell
#19. The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.
Geoff Dyer
#20. A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.
John Litwinovich
#21. The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.
Edith Widder
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