Could
scientists and engineers, for instance,
develop
a cheap, widely-available and safe process to give a woman full
control of her fertility at all times?
What
really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed
with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I
found that her treatment costs were crippling. (Kiran Mazumda-Shaw)
I
don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human
life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to
shorten it.
(Christaan
Barnard)
or explore
the depths of the ocean for the origins of water on the planet as
well as a sustainable source of food and minerals?
Water
is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new
feelings of wonder as often as I view it. (Michael Faraday)
even respond
to climate change realities by advancing research into
de-accelerating processes and flood prevention?
I
was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
(Isaac Newton)
consider supporting efforts to develop human scale socio-political structures of
government?
The
world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
(Albert Einstein)
look into designing and engineering buildings that house and shelter people, not dwarf or
displace them?
A
scientist in her laboratory is not a mere technician: she is also a
child confronting natural phenomena that impress her as though they
were fairy tales. (Marie Curie)
begin to review
the concept of money and outline processes for removing the casino
element in commodity trading?
The
true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. (Albert
Einstein)
commit to work
with local people in threatened coastal regions, such as ocean atolls
and Bangladesh, to secure land in advance of rising sea levels?
No
sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account
not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. (Isaac
Asimov)
undertake work
in some of the most wondrous places on earth to halt the activities
of fracking and coal-tar oil extraction, by modelling work in
forestry and environmental management that brings long-term economic
benefits to the people in those places, at minimum risk to the
eco-systems?
Neuroscience
is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are
made, how the memory works, how we process information, how
information is stored-it's all fascinating. (Lisa Randall)
fully commit
to imaginative research and development in co-operative social and
business processes?
In
mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence
of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is
simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
(Christiane
Nusslein-Volhard)
en masse, withdraw
immediately from work on weapons development and production and
create business partnerships to turn swords into ploughshares,
missiles into prosthetics, bullets into blood vessel stents and tanks
into people carriers with hoists to elevate wheelchair-bound
passengers?
But
does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue
not, because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated
intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behaviour a
lot of the time. (Jane Goodall)
Peace
cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
(Albert
Einstein)
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