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“after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“Without a doubt, Einstein’s greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“The instruments for the quest of truth are as simple as they are difficult. They may appear quite impossible to an arrogant person, and quite possible to an innocent child.”
― M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“we have shown in experimental animals that cancer growth can be turned on and off by nutrition, despite very strong genetic predisposition. We have studied these effects in great detail and have published our findings in the very best scientific journals. As you will see later, these findings are nothing short of spectacular, and the same effects have been indicated over and over again in humans.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.”
― Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

“The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at reality and think logically and precisely about what we see. The key ingredient is to have the courage to face inconsistencies between what we see and deduce and the way things are done. This challenging of basic assumptions is essential to breakthroughs.”
― Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

“Despite the potential of diet and disease prevention, most of the attention given to heart disease has been on mechanical and chemical intervention for those people who have advanced disease. Diet has been pushed aside.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“In this book we will synthesize a single algorithm will all these capabilities: Our quest will take us across the territory of each of the five tribes.”
― Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood”
― Stephen R. Covey

“The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“How many on their deathbeds wished they’d spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Yet again, we see that while supplements may give great wealth to supplement manufacturers, they will not give great health to you and me.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary.”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“Start-ups don’t run on process, they run on ideas, passion, and a common set of goals.”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“As a company gets big and complex, you can’t just organize around people who create innovation; you need to organize around people who can create and lead entire new ventures and businesses.”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“The enjoyment of life, especially the second half of life, is greatly compromised if we can’t see, if we can’t think, if our kidneys don’t work, or if our bones are broken or fragile. I, for one, hope that I am able to fully enjoy not only the time in the present, but also the time in the future, with good health and independence.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or “expressed,” and nutrition plays a critical role in determining which genes, good and bad, are expressed.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“We have no idea what your venture is or even your industry, so we won’t presume to tell you how to create a business plan. But we can tell you with 100 percent certainty that if you have one, it is wrong.”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“Peace always comes to those who choose to forgive”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World

“forgiveness is not a choice you make for someone else; it is a choice you make for yourself.”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World

“So far, scientists have not uncovered any evidence that would hint that the workings of the Universe require the action of a divine being. On the other hand, scientists have uncovered no evidence that indicates that a divine being does not exist.”
― Isaac Asimov, In the Beginning . . .: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis

“When someone asks for the glazed ham across the table, she doesn’t say, “Pass the flesh of the pig’s butt, please,” and when someone tells his children to finish their peas and carrots, he doesn’t say, “Finish your plants.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“For whatever reasons, many people will find it threatening that you are eating a plant-based diet.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“The role of science in a society is to observe, to ask questions, to form and test hypotheses, and to interpret the findings without bias”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“Nutrition training of doctors is not merely inadequate; it is practically nonexistent. The 1985 National Research Council report found that physicians receive, on average, only twenty-one classroom hours (about two credits) of nutrition training during their four years of medical school.4 The majority of the schools surveyed actually taught less than twenty contact hours of nutrition, or one to two credit hours.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“You should not assume that your doctor has any more knowledge about food and its relation to health than your neighbors and coworkers.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“Twenty percent of all new drugs have serious unknown side effects, and more than 100,000 Americans die every year from correctly taking their properly prescribed medication.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

“Our immune system also protects us from developing cancer. The same white blood cells and other immune system components that are utilized to fight infection are also used to recognize our own human cells as they become abnormal and to remove them before they can evolve into a tumor or cancer.”
― Joel Fuhrman, Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free – From a Bestselling Doctor