Quotes about future
future law uncertainty-principle
In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise. On an implication of the uncertainty principle. Werner Heisenberg
future forecasts
Never make forecasts, especially about future. Samuel Goldwyn
future moon thinking
Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming. Sally Ride
future justice long
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service Wangari Maathai
future rights vision
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
future reality ideas
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people Kofi Annan
future goal common
The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
future technology vision
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on Kevin Kelly
future were-meant-to-be premonition
You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning. Ralph Waldo Emerson
future laughing laugh-often
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
future levels individual
Change happens at the level of the individual Scilla Elworthy
future shapes applause
When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape. L. Ron Hubbard
future gun civilization
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. Terence McKenna
future past men
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
future genius appeals
Genius appeals to the future.
future reality imagination
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.
future men immortal
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
future past long-ago
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast. Neil Peart
future adventure worry
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius
future
The future is purchased by the present. Samuel Johnson
future imagination vision
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different Roberto Unger
future past people
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. Robertson Davies
future dark men
Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road. Robert E. Howard
future space earth
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies. Rusty Schweickart
future who-we-are assumption
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
future choices growth
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory Sunita Narain
future people vision
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it Tony Blair
future thinking people
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase
future long vision
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe
future political-will issues
We know the problems.... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will
future stuff made
The future is made of the same stuff as the present. Simone Weil
future moon limits
We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits. Richard Branson
future space people
Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.