Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that’s a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011. Steve Forbes Read Quote
The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like ‘General Relativity still governing planetary orbits’ or ‘Phlogiston theory remains false’? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline. Eliezer Yudkowsky Read Quote
As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I’ll always hit the earth eventually. Greg Rutherford Read Quote
You’re working a million hours and you’re on the road recruiting and you’re doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you’re competing for a championship. You’re competing for a Big Ten Championship, you’re in the Rose Bowl, you’re taking your family to the Cotton Bowl. Ryan Day Read Quote
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life. Magnus Carlsen Read Quote
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I’ve done many. Robert Indiana Read Quote
We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all. Jeff Zucker Read Quote
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator – the gene. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
