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# David Quammen

David Quammen (born February 1948) is an award-winning science, nature and travel writer.

## Quotes

* People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations. Sometimes in their passing, though, they register an unimagined and far-reaching influence, as I suspect Hughes Rudd did upon me. There is no scientific way to discern such effects, but memory believes before knowing remembers. And the past lives coiled within the present, beyond sight, beyond revocation, lifting us up or weighing us down, sealed away--almost completely--behind walls of pearl.
** "Chambers of Memory," The Flight of the Iguana (1988)
* Raphus cucullatus had become rare unto death. But this one flesh-and-blood individual still lived. Imagine that she was thirty years old, or thirty-five, an ancient age for most sorts of birds but not impossible for a member of such a large-bodied species. She no longer ran, she waddled… In the dark of an early morning in 1667, say, during a rainstorm, she took cover beneath a cold stone ledge at the base of one of the Black River cliffs. She drew her head down against her body, fluffed her feathers for warmth, squinted in patient misery. She waited. She didn't know it, nor did anyone else, but she was the only dodo on Earth. When the storm passed, she never opened her eyes. This is extinction.
** The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (1996), p. 275.
* If you can repair your future child's myopia with preemptive genetic tinkering, you might also want to increase her I.Q. by a few dozen points. Will it lead to a world as utopian as Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average? Of course not. It will just add genetic manipulation of embryos and child cloning to the means by which affluent, fussy people try to distance themselves from bad luck, disappointment, menial work, death, and poor people.
** "Clone Your Troubles Away: Dreaming at the Frontiers of Animal Husbandry", Harper's Magazine (February 2005)
* Retroviruses are fiendish things, even more devious and persistent than the average virus. They take their name from the capacity to move backward (retro) against the usual expectations of how a creature translates its genes into working proteins. Instead of using RNA as a template for translating into DNA into protein—the usual route by which genetic information becomes living reality—a retrovirus converts its RNA into DNA within a host cell; its viral DNA then penetrates the cell nucleus and gets itself integrated into the genome of the host cell, thereby guaranteeing replication of the virus whenever the host cell reproduces.
** The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest. 2015.

## External links

Encyclopedic article on David Quammen on Wikipedia
# Richard Panek

Richard Panek (born 1959) is an American popular science writer, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of space, the universe, and gravity.

## Quotes
### Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens (1998)

All quotes from the hardcover first edition, published by Viking, ISBN 0-670-87628-3
* It is indeed like that, how often we are held by prejudice, so that we either do not admit what is before our eyes or bow as much as possible to a preconceived opinion because of the perverse wont of human nature. Nor do I except myself from that weakness.
** Chapter 3, “By the Numbers” (p. 68)
* Whatever gravity was, it must work, because he (Galileo) had the math to prove it.
** Chapter 4, “Profundity” (p. 102)
* Once, when his wife suggested that he attend church on Sunday for the sake of the children, Hale answered, “My creed is truth, wherever it may lead, and I believe that no creed is finer than this (the 100-inch telescope).”
** Chapter 5, “More Light” (p. 146)
* The universe is a work in progress.
** Chapter 6, “More Dark” (p. 162)
# Cara Santa Maria

Cara Louise Santa Maria (born October 19, 1983) is an American science communicator.

## Quotes

* I was lucky to have a handful of strong female and Latina professors. I could see myself in their shoes. It’s so important that we have strong multiethnic women representing science in the media. If kids can’t see themselves in that role, they’re not going to think that’s for them.
** 2019 interview
* I think that sometimes we make mistakes with early STEM education; we teach it as if it’s a series of facts. Learn this fact, learn that fact, shove it down people’s throats—instead of helping people understand that science is a method and it’s a process. Once you understand some of the interesting rules about that method and process, you can apply it to everything and anything, and it sheds new light on every single experience you have.
** 2020 interview
* In becoming a bit more introspective as human beings I think we’re improving our relationship not only with ourselves but everyone else on this planet.
** 2020 interview

### Interview with Scientific America (2012)

* Any time I write a piece or produce a new video, I find myself answering challenging questions and having exciting conversations with the commenters on my posts.
* I am a scientist and educator first. I strive to promote rational, skeptical, evidence-based thought and to improve scientific literacy with every word I write and every conversation I have.
* Without a rigorous materials and methods and results section, however, the author hasn’t really earned the right to speculate on its implications, no?...pseudoscience, junk science, and anti-science are vastly different from views that use scientific fundamentals to challenge the status-quo.
* Our editorial mission is to inform readers, but also to engage them with the awe and beauty of the natural world.
* Almost any topic can be described in such a way that it connects with a personal interest or emotion of a reader. I am lucky enough to be able to produce a video series, Talk Nerdy To Me, where I attempt to do just that. I discuss topics—sometimes ones that are in the news, and sometimes ones that are evergreen in nature—in a way that invites my viewers to start their own conversations around the dinner table or water cooler. I think it’s important to break down complex scientific ideas, or translate them, without dumbing down the content.
* If we can hook a front page reader who’s perusing an article about the race for the republican nomination, the Golden Globes, or even the NFL playoffs with a snappy title and then deliver on that promise of offering an eye-opening perspective on the way the universe works, I think we’ve done what we all want to do: make a small step toward increasing the scientific literacy of the public at large.

## External links

* Personal website
* Twitter page
# Charles V. Willie

Charles Vert Willie (October 8, 1927 – January 11, 2022) was an American sociologist and the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus at Harvard University. His areas of research included desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.

## Quotes

* It is an ancient custom, as ancient as the Roman Empire, to idolize those whom we honor, to make them larger than life, to give their marvelous accomplishments a magical and mystical origin. By exalting the accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. into a legendary tale that is annually told, we fail to recognize his humanity -- his personal and public struggles -- that are similar to yours and mine. By idolizing those whom we honor, we fail to realize that we could go and do likewise.
** The Ethical Foundations of Dr. King's Political Action Speech on Martin Luther King day (2002)
# Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology. He also created and launched the first successful commercial anti-spam service. He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises.

## Quotes

* The Internet is not for sissies.
** ba.internet (1994)
** Notes: in a reply to a luser.
* Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.
** NANOG mailing list (2002)
** Notes: talking about software security bugs.
* Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.
** NANOG mailing list (2000)
* You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?
** NANOG mailing list (2004)
* The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.
** NANOG mailing list (2004)
* personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.
** NANOG mailing list (2004)
** Notes: about Sender Policy Framework
* Isc remains deeply apologetic that prior versions of BIND did not properly catch the configuration error that you appear to have built your business on.
** IETF/namedroppers mailing list (2001)
* Usually they finish by whining «but I WANT it!!! and so, I tell them: «So what? Everybody wants something. I want a pony. Get over it.
** CircleID article
** Notes: referring to proponents of multiple DNS roots.
* While discussing the merits of djbdns over BIND (2004): Niek: "Bind people don't ack djb points and vice versa." Paul Vixie: i don't ack djb's existence, not merely his 'points.'
** NANOG mailing list
* With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
** NANOG mailing list
* I've been lawsuit-threated [sic] by experts, and i can tell you from that experience, dv8 appears to not be an expert.
** IETF mailing list archive
# William Julius Wilson

William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist and Professor of sociology at Harvard University, after working at the University of Chicago from 1972 to 1996.

## Quotes

* A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery. Our study clearly shows that employers would rather not hire a lot of workers from the inner city. They feel people from the inner city are not job-ready, that the kids have been poorly educated, that they can't read, they can't write, they can't speak.
** Interview with Mother Jones magazine, September/October 1996 issue. .
* Affirmative action has to be combined with a broader program of social reform that would emphasize social rights: the right to employment, the right to education, the right to good health. Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked about putting America back to work, blacks should have said yes, but they didn't. They were so preoccupied with affirmative action that they didn't provide the kind of leadership that would help some of the other progressive folks. Only now are black leaders beginning to realize the impact of economic issues.
** Interview with Mother Jones.
* Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there. I'm exposed with this book.'
** Interview with Mother Jones.
* Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check. If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.
** Interview with Mother Jones.
* The problems we see today are going to be a hell of a lot worse in 10 years if we're not willing to face up to them. These kids are just not going to be absorbed into the economy, so what are they going to be doing? Well, we know. They're going to be making life pretty miserable for a lot of people.
** Interview with Mother Jones.
# Gary Zukav

Gary Zukav (born 17 October 1942) is an American author covering the topics of physics and spirituality. He has produced four consecutive New York Times Best Sellers.

## Quotes
### The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979)

    The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
* Hindu mythology is virtually a large scale projection into the psychological realm of microscopic scientific discoveries. … The Wu Li Masters know that physicists are doing more than discovering the endless diversity of nature. They are dancing with Kali, the Divine Mother of Hindu mythology.
** As quoted in A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture (2008) by Sushama Londhe

### Solstice Joy (2021)

    "Solstice Joy" (29 April 2021), Seat of the Soul
* The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
* Now I see more. The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain. It also shows us our amazing independence from our circumstances. In cold or warmth, light or dark, deprivation or abundance, we can choose to respond with love or react in fear.
* Now millions of us are beginning to see the painful AND the joyful circumstances of our lives as opportunities to expand in love or contract in fear. We can experience anger, jealousy, loss, rage, or resentment without acting on it. We can act in love instead, even while we are immersed in anger, fear, jealousy, or rage. We can choose. We can cultivate care, patience, gratitude, and contentment each time we feel them. We can choose.
* Each solstice shows us that we can choose. We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the Universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to Life when each arrives.
# Agnes Baggett

Agnes Beahn Baggett (April 9, 1905 – December 15, 1992) was an American politician who served in the state of Alabama. She served as Alabama's Secretary of State from 1951 to 1955, 1963–1967 and 1975–1979. She also served as Alabama State Treasurer from 1959–1963 and 1967–1975. She was also the inaugural holder of the position of State Auditor.

## Quotes

* You keep Alabama clean and I'll help keep the capitol clean.
* Housewifely politician.
* Agnes sincerity is your security.
* Both women and me have exactly the same grade state responsibility when they serve as a public servant .
* It is the responsibility of every citizen man or woman to participate in politics.
# Wahu

Rosemary Wahu Kagwi, professionally known by her mononym Wahu, is a Kenyan singer-songwriter, former fashion model and entrepreneur.

## Quotes

* To anyone who’s ever been body shamed, remember, what the shamers say is not a reflection of you, it's really a reflection of the quality of person they are...so don't take it their negativity to heart.
** As quoted on The Standard (Kenya)
* I'm sharing this for us to take note that there is hope for a more positive living environment and also to encourage anyone who's been a victim of any kind of hate,
** As quoted on The Standard (Kenya)
# Robert Jaffe

Robert L. Jaffe (born May 23, 1946) is an American physicist and the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was formerly director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.

## Quotes

* The theory community, myself included - became rather troubled about the particle.
** about the pentaquark, soon after its thought-to-be discovery in 2003, particle physicists found that the particle took about 100 times longer to decay into a neutron and meson than other particles did of the same mass, as quoted by by Maggie McKee, New Scientist, (April 20, 2005)
* You can’t imagine how wonderful it is to teach physics at MIT. The physics majors at MIT are there because they want to be there. Their love of physics is infectious...I've likened it to teaching art history in Rome.
** Oral history interview for AIP (April 24, 2020)
* I feel I may be controversial in this, but I think that wisdom doesn't count for a lot in theoretical physics. It’s not like history and literature, where you accumulate a broader and broader world view. It’s not a question of energy; I have plenty of energy. I just wrote—just finished writing this massive book...I think most theoretical physicists do their best work when they're young, because they see problems fresh for the first time.
** Oral history interview for AIP (April 24, 2020)
# Shadow Raiders

    Season 1 2 Main
Shadow Raiders (also entitled: War Planets) is a Canadian CGI animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment (now known as Mainframe Studios) and syndicated by The Summit Media Group, that aired from September 16, 1998 to June 23, 1999. It aired on YTV. Developed by Len Wein and Dan DiDio, the show was loosely based on the Trendmasters toy line, War Planets. The original character designs were created by ReBoot designer, Brendan McCarthy.

## Season 1

    Main article: Shadow Raiders/Season 1

## Season 2

    Main article: Shadow Raiders/Season 2
# Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, controlling vast portions of the Americas, Africa, various islands in Asia and Oceania, as well as territory in other parts of Europe. It was one of the most powerful empires of the early modern period, becoming known as "the empire on which the sun never sets". At its greatest extent in the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Spanish Empire covered over 13 million square kilometres (5 million square miles), making it one of the largest empires in history.

## Quotes

* Pride, the First Peer, and President of Hell, To his share Spain, the largest province, fell. The subtile prince thought fittest to bestow On these the golden mines of Mexico, With all the silver mountains of Peru, Wealth which would in wise hands the world undo, Because he knew their genius was such, Too lazy and too haughty to be rich, So proud a people, so above their fate, That if reduced to beg, they’ll beg in state, Lavish of money, to be counted brave, And proudly starve, because they scorn to save. Never was nation in the world before So very rich, and yet so very poor.
** Daniel Defoe, The True-born Englishman (1701)

## See also

* Spanish colonization of the Americas
# Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire, ultimately reshaping the course of human history. Taking place between 1519 and 1521, this event saw the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, and his small army of soldiers and indigenous allies, overthrow the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II and capture his capital city, Tenochtitlán.

## Quotes

* [W]e had more trouble in preventing our allies from killing with such cruelty than we had in fighting the enemy. For no race, however savage, has ever practiced such fierce and unnatural cruelty as the natives of these parts. Our allies also took many spoils that day, which we were unable to prevent, as they numbered more than 150,000 and we Spaniards were only some nine hundred. Neither our precautions nor our warnings could stop their looting, though we did all we could ... I had posted Spaniards in every street, so that when the people began to come out [to surrender] they might prevent our allies from killing those wretched people, whose number was uncountable. I also told the captains of our allies that on no account should any of those people be slain; but there were so many that we could not prevent more than fifteen thousand being killed and sacrificed [by the Tlaxcalans] that day.
** Hernán Cortés, in letter to Charles V, describing the bloody part played by Spain's Tlaxcalan allies in the Fall of Tenochtitlan; as quoted by Charles Robinson, The Spanish Invasion of Mexico 1519–1521 (London: Osprey, 2004), p. 60

### In fiction

* Fair Mexico, that, trembling in her chains, Saw ruthless strangers waste her peaceful plains, Where are the stately domes she reared of old, Her terraced shrines that blazed with gems and gold? Where her white-feathered chiefs that lined each steep, Like foamy waves which crest the breezy deep? Alas! her tale is traced in tears and flame; Let History blush to write a Cortes' name; Lo! where the fires ascend from yonder vale! Ye hear the stake-bound victims' dying wail. Doth not a groan each turf-clad barrow yield, From those who fell on red Otumba's field? While on each murmuring wind that wanders by, Floats royal Montezuma's fruitless sigh.
** Nicholas Michell, Ruins of Many Lands, 2nd ed. (1850), Book I, Part 3
# Shadow Raiders/Season 2

    Season 1 2 Main
Shadow Raiders (also entitled: War Planets) is a Canadian CGI animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment (now known as Mainframe Studios) and syndicated by The Summit Media Group, that aired from September 16, 1998 to June 23, 1999. It aired on YTV. Developed by Len Wein and Dan DiDio, the show was loosely based on the Trendmasters toy line, War Planets. The original character designs were created by ReBoot designer, Brendan McCarthy.

### Episode 02 - This is The Way The World Ends

    Tekla: Computer, are you online? Computer? Computer!
    Graveheart: Forget it, it's fried.
    Grand Vizier: Farewell, Prince Pyrus: Ruler of the Planet Fire, Lord of the Golden Light.
    Pyrus: [Tries to reach each other and Vizier fades away] NO..!
    Grand Vizier: It is my glory to serve you. And you, eater of worlds! May you taste of the righteous fire and choke on it. FOR MY PLANET SAKE, I S...PIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE! [Controls the Planet Fire with his rod to ram the Beast Planet for his sacrifice]
    Grand Vizier: And you, eater of worlds, may you taste our righteous fire... and choke on it! For my planet's sake... I spit my last breath at thee!
    Prince Pyrus: Goodbye, my vizier. My mentor. My friend. You perished as you lived... gloriously. This universe will never know your like again.

### Episode 04 - Blaze of Glory

    Cryos: [Threatening Mantle with brute force] Graveheart may not wish to strike a king, but I have no such compunction. Now stand aside!

### Episode 13 - Ascension

    Pyrus: [To King Mantle] I am not a boy. I am ruler of Planet Fire and Jade is under my royal protection. Now let us do what we must!