Frontiers Quotes - Page 17

• Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

  Amin Maalouf

  Country, Sea, Belief

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.360, New Amsterdam Books

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• I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience. And while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

  George W. Bush

  Life, Mean, Science

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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• The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.

  Anna Quindlen

  Soccer, Country, Children

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• We're standing on the edge of a new frontier.

  Anthony Griffin

  Standing On The Edge, New Frontiers, Edges

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• In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.

  Vera Wang

  Dream, Inspiration, Reality

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• I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Fire, Interesting

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• The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As we become increasingly aware of the ethical problems raised by science and technology, the frontiers between the biological and social sciences are clearly of critical importance-in population density and problems of hunger, psychological stress, pollution of the air and water and exhaustion of irreplaceable resources.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Stress, Science, Technology

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• In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.

  Mo Udall

  Nature, Opportunity, Alaska

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• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about whom the public is to hate. Guilt and guilelessness must be assessed geographically and all the guilt must be on the other side of the frontier.

  Harold Lasswell

  War, Hate, Guilt

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• Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

  John Bardeen

  Fields, Expanding, Grows

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1972.

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• Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

  Tom Bodett

  Growing Up, Kids, Alaska

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• America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, America, Space

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• I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Cities, San Francisco, World

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2001). “San Francisco Poems”, p.11, City Lights Books

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• More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Moon, Land, Issues

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• In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

  Alan Alda

  Mountain, Chile, Blockage

  "The Givers: Alan Alda Plays With Fire! An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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• During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Native American, American West

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• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

  O. Henry

  Truth, Honesty, Lines

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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• Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

  David Lloyd George

  Freedom, Liberty, Restraint

  International Liberal Conference, July 1928.

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• Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Years, Europe, Germany

  Adolf Hitler (1969). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Italian, Dawn

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• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Leaving, Enemy

  Statement at Paris, January 23, 1814.

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• You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

  Edward VII

  Coffee, Germany, Culture

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• Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

  John Bardeen

  Hard Work, Science, People

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1972.

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• The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

  John Culliney

  Ocean, Men, Rivers

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