Iron Quotes - Page 18

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

Our body's natural detoxification system is designed to support our health by eliminating waste products from our metabolism and from environmental toxins. Like any other hardworking system, it needs periodic rest and support to continue functioning optimally. This program will teach you how to rest and restore your body's natural detoxification abilities.

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.