“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“In the networking world, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”
“It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.”
“The understanding of atomic physics is child’s play, compared with the understanding of child’s play.”
“When Janine Haines was elected Leader of the Democrats in 1986, she became the first woman to lead a national political party. The Democrats have had 5 female leaders. When Janine Haines, became the first Australian Democrat to enter the Senate in 1977, she joined seven other women. At that time, of the 177 Members of the House of Representatives, there was not one female member. A higher proportion of women has consistently been elected to the Upper House compared to the Lower house, which begs the question, “Which House is more representative? It is also worth noting that in 101 years there have only been two Indigenous members of the federal parliament and both were elected to the Senate: Senators Neville Bonner and Aden Ridgeway.”
“A snail could crawl the entire length of the Great Wall of China in 212 years, just slightly longer than the 200 years it will take for women to be equally represented in Parliament.”
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
