Friday, April 16, 2010

Three Quotes

Nicole Kuepper:


"new technology ideas are potentially going to come to fruition and actually be implemented on a large scale manufacturing environment"

Source: Desley Blanch, “New Solar Cell for World's Poor – iJET.” ABC Radio Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/stories/s2397257.htm (accessed April 17, 2010).

Image Source: Australian Museum, "Nicole Kuepper - Winner PC Award 2008," Australian Museum. http://australianmuseum.net.au/image/Nicole-Kuepper-Winner-2008 (accessed April 17, 2010).

Charles Darwin:


"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."

Source: Charles Darwin, On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (London: John Murray, 1859), 244.

Image Source: "Darwin Gallery: Darwin on Display," Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?gid=33 (accessed April 17, 2010).

Stephen Hawking:


"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."

Source: Roger Highfield, “Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking,” Telegraph Media Group Limited, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1359562/Colonies-in-space-may-be-only-hope-says-Hawking.html (accessed April 17, 2010).

Image Source: Mackenzie Stroh, "Inside the World of Stephen Hawking," Discover Magazine, http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/25-inside-the-world-of-stephen-hawking (accessed April 17, 2010).

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