Diversity Quotes - Page 5

• In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

  George H. W. Bush

  Generosity, Unity, Important

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Motivational, Summer, Country

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• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Powerful, Past

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• The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.

  Scott Adams

  Boss, Want, Like You

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• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

  James A. Baldwin

  Keys, Literature, World

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• She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

  Lee Child

  New York, Reflection, Texas

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• Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

  Madame de Stael

  Lying, Resemblance Is, Differences

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Celebrating Diversity, Universe

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.49, Random House

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• You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Letting Go, Stay Strong, Men

  "The Great Quotations" edited by George Seldes, (p. 641), 1971.

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• Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to organism to population to ecosystem. The second dimension is the diversity of all species in the biosphere. The third dimension is the history of each species in turn, comprising both its genetic evolution and the environmental change that drove the evolution. Biology, by growing in all three dimensions, is progressing toward unification and will continue to do so.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Ecosystems, Organization

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• Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.

  Charles Darwin

  Taken, Science, Bird

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.457, Broadview Press

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• Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Science, Simple

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.101

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• For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  "Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

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• Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Discovery, Together

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• Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Science, Discovery, Identity

  William Stanley Jevons (1874). “The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method”, p.1

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• The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

  E. O. Wilson

  Cutting, Science, Population

  "The Diversity of Life". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1992.

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• There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

  Adam Rickitt

  Real, Doctors, People

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• Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Enquiry, Uniforms

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.178, Open Road Media

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• Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

  Theodore Holmes Bullock

  Nature, Science, Two

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• On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Life, Science, Perfect

  "Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 83". en.wikiquote.org. December 10, 2003.

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• Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life in all its biological diversity. But things could also turn out to be worse than the current scientific best guess. In military affairs, policy has long been based on the dictum that we should be prepared for the worst case. Why should it be so different when the security is that of the planet and our long-term future?

  Prince Charles

  Military, Future, Science

  "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning". Book by Martin Rees (p. 112-113), March 17, 2009.

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• The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms, however different, and that this principle is the formation of cells.

  Theodor Schwann

  Science, Cells, Differences

  Theodor Schwann (1847). “Microscopical Researches Into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants”, p.165

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• The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that crystals are formed by the same laws in spite of the diversity of their forms.

  Theodor Schwann

  Science, Law, Principles

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• This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes arising by fertilisation can thereby have different qualities, that, even under quite similar conditions of life, phenotypically diverse individuals can develop.

  Wilhelm Johannsen

  Independent, Science, Quality

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• What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.

  Cesar Milstein

  Ignorance, Science, Simple

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