Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

Bulging biceps?" she repeated with a broad grin. "Wow. Your imagination is even more potent than I thought.

Arthur Schopenhauer had famously expressed, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom." This is measured by atomic clocks that are accurate to within one second over a period of fifteen billion years—roughly the age of the universe.

four years to reach the nearest star.

When it comes to the existence of UFOs, we've reached a tipping point. The burden of proof used to be on the believers to prove that UFOs are real. Now the burden of proof has shifted to the government and military to prove that they're not real. Because the evidence is overwhelming." —Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics, City College of New York

so was the road to heaven.

If you're able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don't continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.

This symbol had since migrated to the Greek and Roman Empires, and then to the modern world, and the idiom "extending an olive branch" was now understood across cultures to mean an offer of reconciliation.

Many of you have lost touch with nature, with simple pleasures. No matter how much technology you have, all you crave is the next advance. Your lives have become hollow, meaningless, and unfulfilling.

Desh believed that dangerous character traits such as megalomania, sadism, and sociopathy tended to be enriched in populations of people who had risen to positions of power and influence. This enrichment was even more pronounced at the top of organizations such as the CIA and the military, to which people with these pathologies tended to gravitate preferentially.

Recently proposed algorithms that involved hiding an encryption key at the intersection point of a multi-dimensional lattice should prove unbreakable, even for a quantum computer.

translating if you will, so that you perceive this room in the usual three dimensions.

The most important environmental determinants that come into play are the quality of relationships with friends and family. And challenging ourselves, pursuing what we are passionate about, and achieving. What really makes a life rewarding is facing challenges, overcoming them, and growing as a

I know it's like drinking from a fire-hose.

Cultures and national belief systems that maintain their integrity can add to diversity. I'm a strong believer in melting pot societies, but enclaves of distinctiveness are important too. As long as every nation, and every diverse group within every nation, is accepting of others.

My four-year-old niece has had a kids touchscreen tablet since she was old enough to drool. While I was there, I handed her a kids magazine. She had no idea what to do with it. She kept swiping the cover with her finger to try to scroll through additional pages. There was a part she wanted to see bigger, so she tried to touch it and splay out her fingertips to enlarge it.

The origin of the universe is the exact opposite of random. Our lives are the exact opposite of pointless. It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter. —Bernard Haisch, The God Theory

Perhaps this was one of the reasons for her reticence. She knew that he was keeping a huge part of his life from her.

Allie returned to MIT to finish her doctorate, only to discover that her advisor, Abraham Sena, whom she had admired, had stolen her thesis while she was gone, publishing it as if it were his own work.

kill one man and you're considered a murderer. Wipe out all life on an entire planet, with the exception of the occupants of a wooden ark, and you're considered a god. Still,

It turns out that while objects can move through space and time at different rates, they all move through space-time at exactly the same rate: the speed of light. Always.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Maybe it would be well understood in this far future time that resilience, determination, refusal to accept defeat, and ability to bounce back from tragedy were the hallmarks of the human condition.

That the castle was only turned into a hotel to house the GISE conference?