Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.
We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again. " There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.
What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within.
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators
From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all.
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix. . . This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.
. . . four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to connect their faith to sustainable development and act accordingly, with the support of their institutions, the gains could be world-changing
The past, the future: - two eternities!
You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret. . . is to press play.
The medicine of the future will be music and sound.
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.
Peace should be our future.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.