“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.”
“While Australia was the first country to give women the right to stand as well as to vote for the national parliament, Finland was the second. And Finland immediately elected nineteen women to its parliament (in 1907) while Australia had essentially given women the right to stand but not to sit. It was not until 1943 that the first women took their seats in Australia’s national parliament.”
“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied, and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one thousand generations back of them … Millions of women, dead and gone are speaking through us today.”
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”
“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our young people – one of these is roots, the other is wings.”
“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”
“The understanding of atomic physics is child’s play, compared with the understanding of child’s play.”
