All Quotes

"Mountains reveal our strength, and the view reminds us the journey matters."

"Sustainability is not just about protecting the environment but transforming livelihoods and building a future where opportunities are created for all."

"The most famous of Elizabethan gardening authorities was , who came of a well-known family. When he left , Hugh Platt became a member of , and being given a generous allowance by his father he was able to devote many years to literary work. He became keenly interested in and agriculture and was in communication with all the authorities in this country. His own gardens at , , and were famous, and his (reprinted later under the title of The Garden of Eden) is full of information gleaned in all parts of England ..."

"For the gardens of the few who can give them warm walls in the most sheltered parts of Great Britain, two scented January-flowering treasures are ' and Freylinia cestroides. With its globe-shaped head of flowers, ranging from deep butter to cream-colour on the same head (the flowers turn cream-colour as they fade), its sweet scent and the length of time it remains in bloom, E. chrysantha is a most attractive plant, and the buff-coloured flowers of fill the air with fragrance in mid-winter."

"In midwinter, when few fresh herbs except , , , , and are available, dried herbs can be used, also or ..."

"The most attractive time in is in spring when the bank sloping from the terrace is thick with s and ."

"Queen Elizabeth came twice to Oxford: once in 1566 and again in 1592."

"The oldest book dealing with the virtue of herbs is the , circa 900–950. This Leech Book was evidently the manual of a Saxon doctor and it is the oldest existing Leech Book written in the ."

", of the most noted of the day, entered the service of the as an assistant gardener. In 1826 he was made head-gardener. His name at is chiefly associated with the remarkable he designed, which was begun in 1836 and finished in 1840."

"Even in only very wealthy men had separate gardens merely for pleasure, whilst all the small s and s throughout the country still retained the old . For over seven centuries before that time, all the gardens in England were herb gardens, and very beautiful they must have been, for s, , s, , , , , s, , s, and s were all used as herbs."

"Of s we knew nothing till we learnt about them from the s; and they were only introduced into England in . It was about the same time that s were first cultivated in this country, but s were unknown till . The is an indigenous plant in the , but of the we were ignorant till the Flemish immigrants in the early seventeenth century introduced them. To them also we owe our present garden , which has had a long journey to reach us, for it is said to have come from Asia through Spain. The was used by our ancestors from , and one of the Saxon names for March was "sprout-kale month"; but otherwise the whole ' tribe were unknown to us till the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."

"We talk about purpose a lot, whether it be in the church or in academic institutions ... I had to step back and just say, ‘Who else?’"

"People at the N.I.H. would have overlooked Black women if I failed. Being the first in so many kinds of these spaces has so much pressure"

"I felt like there was no room for mistakes, which was difficult because science – mistakes are actually part of the beauty of it. Not necessarily tons of mistakes, but you learn a lot from things that don’t necessarily always go right with experiments. But in this case, we only had the bandwidth to learn from things that were going to go right. Otherwise, you lost time and people died."

"I would say that my role as a scientist is really about my passion and purpose for the world and for giving back to the world."

"If you can unwind and be true to who you are, it helps to reckon with things. My team is responding to the world’s most devastating global pandemic in the last hundred years. And so, there’s something to be said about knowing who you are."

"I felt like it was necessary to be seen and to not be a hidden figure so to speak."

"there are two types of people, those who can learn from incomplete datasets."

"The sniper rifle is a little intimidating, I'm not going to lie."

"The Catholic faith, generally seen as a "foreign religion", became better known and attitudes towards us have improved. Today we have conversions although we cannot speak too openly of officially it. But the seeds of the faith are gradually taking root."

"AI will not solve poverty, because the conditions that lead to societies that pursue profit over people are not technical. AI will not solve discrimination, because the cultural patterns that say one group of people is better than another because of their gender, their skin color, the way they speak, their height, or their wealth are not technical. AI will not solve climate change, because the political and economic choices that exploit the earth’s resources are not technical matters. As tempting as it may be, we cannot use AI to sidestep the hard work of organizing society so that where you are born, the resources of your community, and the labels placed upon you are not the primary determinants of your destiny. We cannot use AI to sidestep conversations about patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, or who holds power and who doesn’t."

"Defaults are not neutral. They often reflect the coded gaze—the preferences of those who have the power to choose what subjects to focus on"

"If you have a face, you have a place in the conversation about AI."

"How will people build professional callouses if the early work that may be viewed as mundane essentials are taken over by AI systems?"

"If having access to instruments impacts other students as it did me, kids would have more opportunities to engage with a broader group of people and to gain greater understanding of the world."

"Reach out to teachers and school counselors who can connect you to science and engineering camps."

"I spent my formative years on the Choctaw Indian reservation in Philadelphia, Mississpi, and in Missoula, Montana, where I loved playing outdoors, watching farm animals, and observing everything around me. I believe living in these settings motivated me to explore and respect nature."

"Every step in my career has served a purpose. Of course, each step provided me with a particular level of training. But the steps also bought me time to figure out what I like and what I don’t like professionally and personally. If I had to end with some advice, I would say: Take each of these steps seriously and not to rush ahead to the next one."

"When you don't feel valued, you feel like sh*t. When you feel like sh*t, you don't do good math."

"I grew up not having any clue what a Mathematician was… so I looked up and wrote to random Math Professors. It sounds silly, but this actually helped shape my career path. Doing math for a living is a sweet gig, and I am deeply grateful to be a part of the mathematics community."

"Recently the so-called Arab spring of 2011 provided an inspiration and a catalyst for the Occupy Movements that have spread rapidly throughout the world, and perhaps significantly, awakened political forces in the United States on the left for the first time in a broad-based way since the 1960s... What is remarkable about these occupations and the challenge to the politics of neo-liberal capitalism that they represent, is that they have gained the support of the vast majority of people in every country where the occupations have occurred. It shows that today’s youth – and the population more generally – are not fooled by false promises and have developed a fairly radical political economy perspective on the world, appreciating its deep injustices and opposing the almost obscene levels of inequality that have developed."

"The ultimate goal of my research is to improve our knowledge of how changes in climate and land-use will affect forest ecosystems and water resources."

"I investigate how forest processes affect water flow dynamics and pathways in soil and streams, and conversely, how water flow paths affect ecological function in mountainous areas. This bridging of hydrology and ecosystem science is key to developing sustainable management of water resources."

"All of my research involves a combination of field experimentation, field observations and laboratory analysis, and is fundamentally interdisciplinary and collaborative."

"Over my career, I have collaborated with dozens of excellent scientists from a variety of disciplines to conduct research projects that have achieved far more than any of us could have on our own."

"Statehood was welcomed by the people with real rejoicing. As a territory the people had no part in the election of a President, nor in the legislation by Congress, and all of the conditions of territorial life tended to make a people dependent rather than self-reliant. The chief concern of the people of Dakota, however, during the ten years' fight for statehood, had been for the division of the territory into two states. In this they were moved by motives of the highest patriotism. The leaders of that period believed that it would be a crime for them to sit idly by and permit the great territory to become one state, with but two members of the United States Senate, thus entailing to posterity forever a sort of political vassalage to the small states of the eastern seaboard."

"Collecting comprehensive national and regional data could thwart the spread of malaria in Africa as conditions warm"

"Knowing what happened with COVID-19, we need to deal with monkeypox seriously."

"Forget it, mister high-and-mighty Master Control! You aren't making me talk."

"Are you a User? [Flynn nods yes, Ram laughs, but begins flashing red] Flynn...help Tron."

"Your user can't help you now, my little program."

"You're very persistent, Tron. [Tron: I'm also better than you.]"

"Death to the U—"

"I fight for the Users!"

"You knew I'd beat you. And still you did all this. For him. No. Why? [Kevin Flynn: He's my son.]"

"Goodbye, kiddo."

"You. You... did this."

"I followed my directive. [Ares: I know.] And now? What is yours?"

"Where there is not light, there can spider!"

"Any computer is a laptop if you're brave enough!"