TED Quotes

"Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you’re a..."

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:59:01 -0500

“Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you’re a performance artist.”

- Golin Levin

"To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with..."

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:25:48 -0500

“To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.”

- Wade Davis

"…We don’t just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our..."

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:48:00 -0500

““…We don’t just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they’re made of, what their hidden nature is.””

- Paul Bloom

"…This morning, about a billion people on Earth — or one out of every seven — woke..."

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:34:36 -0400

““…This morning, about a billion people on Earth — or one out of every seven — woke up and didn’t even know how to fill this cup [with food].”

- Joesette Sheeran

"If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark."

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:12:16 -0400

“If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.”

- Richard Wilkinson

"We went to Ladakh…and we asked this woman, what was the benefit you had from solar electricity? And..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:14:00 -0400

“We went to Ladakh…and we asked this woman, what was the benefit you had from solar electricity? And she thought for a minute and said,
‘It’s the first time I can see my husband’s face in winter.’”

- Bunker Roy

"So by trying to preserve our dead bodies, we deny death, poison the living, and, further, harm the..."

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:10:49 -0400

“So by trying to preserve our dead bodies, we deny death, poison the living, and, further, harm the environment.”

- Jae Rhim Lee

"The secret to happiness is: low expectations."

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:04:34 -0400

“The secret to happiness is: low expectations.”

- Barry Schwartz

"I danced through chemo and radiation cycles."

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:10:52 -0400

“I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.”

- Ananda Shankar Jayant

"We’re against lying, but we’re covertly for it, in ways that our society has sanctioned."

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:22:26 -0400

“We’re against lying, but we’re covertly for it, in ways that our
society has sanctioned.”

- Pamela Meyer

"Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species."

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:09:29 -0400

“Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species.”

- Alison Gopnik

"The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is. It’s that you can..."

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:58:36 -0400

“The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is. It’s that you can see the world as it isn’t.”

- Kathryn Schulz

"All evil starts with 15 volts."

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:06:05 -0400

“All evil starts with 15 volts.”

- Philip Zimbardo

"Data is the new soil."

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:21:35 -0400

“Data is the new soil.”

- David McCandless

"If we rely solely on the criminal justice system and the threat of punitive sentences, we will be..."

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:42:05 -0400

““If we rely solely on the criminal justice system and the threat of punitive sentences, we will be nurturing a monster we can not tame.””

- Misha Glenny

"I can’t promise my child a life without bias. But I promise to bias my child with multiple..."

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:34:29 -0400

“I can’t promise my child a life without bias. But I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.”

- Raghava KK

"Is life that improbable? If the physics of fusion is encoded in the universe, maybe the physics of..."

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:13:29 -0400

“Is life that improbable? If the physics of fusion is encoded in the universe, maybe the physics of life is as well.”

- Lee Cronin

"Chaos happens. Let’s make better use of it."

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:14:04 -0400

“Chaos happens. Let’s make better use of it.”

- Edward Tenner

"Do we really believe most students studying math right now think it’s anything other than..."

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:26:37 -0400

“Do we really believe most students studying math right now think it’s anything other than fairly mindless? Most of the time what they’re actually doing is running through a bunch of calculating processes they don’t understand for reasons they don’t get.”

- Conrad Wolfram

"‎True compassion means you can’t be attached to the outcome."

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:50:00 -0400

“‎True compassion means you can’t be attached to the outcome.”

- Joan Halifax