#orator

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#capital #capital punishment #day #defeated #exactly

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#course #get #giving #graduate #impress

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#back #called #cancelled #ended #got

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#classes #could #experience #history #ideas

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. ↗

— Mos Def

#each #experiment #i #i believe #i believe the

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#because #connection #considered #demand #government

A very good editor is almost a collaborator. ↗

— Ken Follett

#collaborator #editor #good #very

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#collaborator #days #difficult #directed #director

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. ↗

— Orson Welles

#does #even #experimentation #hollywood #industry

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#guinea #guinea pigs #humanity #just #laboratory