Wherever Seeds May Fall Quotes

“They mistake degrees for intelligence, but the two are not synonymous. You can be smart without a piece of paper telling you so. And you can be a goddamn fool with a degree.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Exxon knew as early as 1977 that fossil fuels were causing climate change. In what has to be the most morally repugnant corporate campaign in history, Big Oil not only buried the science, they actively spread disinformation.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Earth is our only home.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Our beliefs are irrelevant. Understanding is far more important than beliefs. “Beliefs control people. Understanding inspires people.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“There’s no law against stupidity.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Throwing more people at it won’t solve anything. Nine women can’t produce a baby in a month.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Democracy’s greatest strength is the very thing that weakens it—every vote counts. When it comes to the ballot box, my ignorance is as good as your knowledge. Regardless of whether someone believes in lizard people or quantum mechanics, everyone gets an equal say. There’s no law against stupidity.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“We glorify war because it gives us heroes, but that’s folly. War is savage. There ain’t nothing honorable in war beyond victory, and victory always comes at a cost.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“What is it that makes us so goddamned suspicious on the one hand and yet so utterly gullible on the other?”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Confidence is the ace of spades,”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“There’s nothing the military likes more than a plan.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“they probably realize there’s no bathroom down here and don’t want to pee into the bucket in the corner.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Science starts with questions, not answers. Scientists are human. If anyone wants to find a cause for autism, it’s us. We want answers. Solutions. But we won’t invent them where they don’t exist. So this guy lies, and we spend decades double checking—just in case!”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“From many comes one.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“When it comes to the ballot box, my ignorance is as good as your knowledge.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Too much excess energy in too small an area over too short a period of time.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Anything at four and five will be stable for millions of years.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Lagrange points. These are gravitationally neutral positions in space.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Trying to hit anything in space is akin to firing a bullet at another bullet swirling around within a hurricane.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Can we defang Russia without triggering a nuclear escalation?”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Everyone here has top-secret clearance.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“So how do you take over hundreds of different countries and cultures containing billions of people? You don’t. You can’t. So you adapt. You infiltrate. You manipulate. You lie. You steal. You cheat.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Uniform Romeo Golf Echo November Tango.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“If you can’t explain it to a child, you don’t understand it yourself.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Pictures are funny, aren’t they? They’re a split second
forever frozen in time—more vivid than any memory.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Albert Einstein told Louis de Broglie, and I quote, ‘All physical theories… ought to lend themselves to so simple a description that even a child could understand them.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“It’s not aliens It’s never aliens Until it is”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools! “Don’t you see, it’s the arrogance, the ego that dumbs us down.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“My grandfather once told me, birds gather wherever seeds may fall.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall

“That thing out there. That comet that flew past Saturn. Yeah, they tell you it’s a comet. That ain’t no comet. It’s an alien spaceship! It’s a warship! I’m telling y’all right now, they’re on their way here. The lizard people! They’re coming for their own.”
― Peter Cawdron, Wherever Seeds May Fall