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# Derek Abbott

Derek Abbott (born 3 May 1960, in South Kensington, London, UK) is a physicist and electronic engineer. He is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is notable for leading theoretical work in the development of Parrondo's paradox, contributions to the field of stochastic resonance, and experimental contributions to T-ray imaging.

## Quotes

* My advice to all students is to question everything! You never know where a "silly question" may lead you.
** Statement in his Introductory profile at The University of Adelaide.
* My advice to prospective PhD students is to follow your passion and pick a topic that interests you — don't do a PhD topic that you hate, but you think will be lucrative. Because the big picture is that it is the fundamentals learned and problem solving skills gained from your PhD that will open the real career doors. Topics come in and out of fashion — it is the investment in yourself and the person you become through your PhD experience that really matters in the end. Of course, if you happen to love a topic that turns out lucrative then great — but this is hard to predict.
** Introductory profile at The University of Adelaide

### On energy supply and solar power

Quoted in Lisa Zyga, "How a Solar-Hydrogen Economy Could Supply the World's Energy Needs", PhysOrg.com, 24 August 2009
* My starting point is as an academic who always thought nuclear was the answer, but who then looked at the figures and came to an inescapable conclusion that solar-hydrogen is the long-term future. I did not come at this as a green evangelist. I am a reluctant convert.
* One can justify solar-hydrogen simply on grounds of economic resource viability without any green agenda.
* The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitively have the ingenuity to tap the sun's resources.
* The biggest challenge [for solar power] is escaping from the economic effects of vendor lock-in where large investments in nuclear and traditional energy sources keep us 'locked-in' to feeding monsters that will bring us down an economic black hole. It's rather like the play The Little Shop of Horrors where a man-eating plant is initially fed small amounts, but then its voracious appetite sends it into a downward spiral swallowing up anyone that gets in its way.
* Efficiency is not the issue when you go solar. There is so much solar that all you have to do is invest in the non-recurring cost of more dishes to drive a solar-hydrogen economy at whatever efficiency it happens to sit at.

## External links

* Mathematics genealogy project: Abbott's scientific genealogy
* Fellow of the IEEE citation
* Abbott's Fellow IEEE biography
* 2004 Tall Poppy Award citation
* 2005 Eureka Prize People's Choice Award for Science list of finalists
* Abbott's COSnet profile
* Nanotechnology network profile
* Teaching philosophy
* Stochastic Resonance
* Quantum Aspects of Life
* Abbott's neurotree profile
# Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite. Salt is essential for life in general, and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings, and is known to uniformly improve the taste perception of food, including otherwise unpalatable food. Salting, brining, and pickling are also ancient and important methods of food preservation.

## Quotes

* A grain of salt.
** Idiomatic. Cf. Pliny the Elder's Natural History XXIII: addito salis grano ("a grain of salt being added")
* But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
** Genesis 19:26 (KJV)
* And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
** Leviticus 2:13 (KJV)
* Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
** Matthew 5:13 (KJV)
* Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
** Colossians 4:6 (KJV)
* Nūlla in tam magnō est corpore mīca salis.
* Can you find in the whole of her body the least pinch of salt?
** Catullus, Carmina, 86
** Arthur Symons, transl., "De Quintia et Lesbia" (1913)
* Pippin: The salted pork is particularly good. Gimli [longingly]: Salted pork?
** The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
* Budd: You done got a double dose of rock salt, right in the ole tit. Now not havin' tits as fine or as big as yours, I can't even imagine how bad that shit stings ... But I don't wont to neather.
* Budd: Now I know when it comes to a rock salt burn, you're feelin' pretty much like a expert 'bout now. But truth be told, you ain't felt all rock salt's got to offer till you took a double dose in your backside.
* Budd: That gentled ya down, didn't it? Yep ... ain't nobody a badass with two barrels of rock salt dug deep in their backyard.
** Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
# William Duncan (missionary)

William Duncan (3 April 1832 – 30 August 1918) was an English-born Anglican missionary who founded the Tsimshian communities of Metlakatla, British Columbia, in Canada, and Metlakatla, Alaska, in the United States. Although sometimes referred to as "Father Duncan" in subsequent reports, he was never ordained.

## Quotes

* An old chief had killed a female, and the body was thrown into the sea. Crowds of people were seen to run where the corpse was thrown, when presently two bands of furious wretches appeared and gave vent to the most unearthly sounds. When they came where the body lay, they rushed at it like so many angry wolves. Finally they seized it, dragged it out of the water, laid it on the beach and a couple of the fiends commenced to tear it in pieces with their teeth. The two bands of men surrounded them and hid their frightful work. In a few minutes the crowd dispersed, when each of the naked cannibals appeared with half of the body in his hands. Separating a few steps from each other, the two men finished amid horrid yells their still more horrid feast.
** Describing a scene witnessed by him among the Tsimshians of British Columbia. Cited in Charles W. Darling, Anthropophagy (1886), p. 39
# Andrew of Wyntoun

Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1425) was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and, later, a canon of St Andrews. He is most famous for his completion of a poem in eight-syllabled metre entitled Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, which contains an early mention of Robin Hood. The subject of the Cronykil is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the death of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany in 1420.

## Quotes

* It is of Inglis natioune The commone kend conditioune Of Trewis the wertu to forget, And rekles of gud Faith to be.
** Reported in T. F. Henderson, Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History (London: David Nutt, 1898), p. 59

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Andrew of Wyntoun on Wikipedia
# Edwin Francis Jemison

Edwin Francis Jemison (December 1, 1844 – July 1, 1862) was a Confederate soldier who served in Company C, 2nd Louisiana Infantry, from May 1861 until he was killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill. Jemison's photograph has become one of the most famous and iconic portraits of the young soldiers of both the Confederate and Union armies, resonating a legacy of the awful cost of the American civil war.

## Quotes about Edwin Francis Jemison

* While his [Private Jemison’s] parents knew where he died, it was many years before they knew the details. One day my father introduced himself to a man as they sat before a hotel. The man repeated the name and said it was the first time he had heard that name since 1862; that a young soldier of that name had been fighting beside him at the Battle of Malvern Hill and been decapitated by a cannon ball. Questions proved it was Uncle Edwin.
** The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison his niece, Mamie Jemison Chestney, in a family history.
* Wondering who it was who stood foremost in a charge of a Louisiana brigade with fixed bayonet, advancing up the hill and across a clover patch, when a shell from a gunboat in the bay took off his head and spattered his brains and blood all about the uniform of Captain Moseley, himself advancing through the thick rain of shot with his Georgia brigade.
** The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison Story by Captain Moseley that appeared in the 1906 newspapers describing attack at Malvern Hill.
* I turned suddenly at the terrible concussion caused by the proximity of the shell’s trail of death and saw that man standing headless, with bayonet drawn as in the charge, his blood spurting high in the air from the jugular vein, and it seemed to me an hour before he reeled and fell, still holding on to his gun. To me that was one of the most horrible sights of the period. I went back and looked at him after the fight to assure myself that it was not a dream of frenzy in those exciting moments. He was there as I had seen him fall, and more than 40 years have passed with that picture forever impressed on my memory.
** The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison Story by Captain Moseley that appeared in the 1906 newspapers describing attack at Malvern Hill.
* He sustain[ed] himself in the front rank of the soldier and gentlemen until the moment of his death. Bounding forward at the order ‘Charge!’ he was stricken down in the front rank, and without a struggle yielded up his young life.
** The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison In a Passage from his obituary describing his last moments.

## External links

* Find a Grave
* NPS Soldier Database entry
* Private Edwin Jemison: The Boy Soldier
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Hubert Reeves

Hubert Reeves (July 13, 1932 – October 13, 2023) was a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science. He had been a Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1965 and lived in France where he often spoke on television promoting science.

## Quotes

* We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.
** Hubert Reeves (1984) Atoms of silence: an exploration of cosmic evolution Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 23
* These are the limits of the scientific method and of logic itself, insofar as they must rely on language. Our words are built on the objects of our experience. They have acquired their effectiveness by adapting themselves to the occurrences of our everyday world. But when we approach realities of another scale, these words can become obstacles.
** Hubert Reeves (1984) Atoms of silence: an exploration of cosmic evolution Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 37
# John Robbins (author)

John Robbins (born October 26, 1947) is an American author, who popularized the links among nutrition, environmentalism, and animal rights. He is the author of the 1987 Diet for a New America.

## Quotes

* I think what I really learned in all of this, was to be true to myself, to be true to my inner voice. And I began to see, that we really do have the power, our own lives really do make a difference, just by being more conscious of the food that we eat. We can heal ourselves, we can heal the environment, we can heal this planet.
** Diet for a New America, 1991 documentary film (visible at Internet Archive)

### Diet for a New America (1987)

* I was born in the heart of the Great American Food Machine. From childhood on it was expected that I would someday take over and run what has become the world's largest ice cream company—Baskin-Robbins. Year after year I was groomed and prepared for the task, given an opportunity to live the Great American Dream… There is a sweeter and deeper American dream than the one I turned down. It is the dream of a success in which all beings share because it is founded on a reverence for life. A dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. A dream of a people living in accord with the laws of Creation, cherishing and caring for the natural environment, conserving nature instead of destroying it. A dream of a society that is truly healthy, practicing a wise and compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem.
** Introduction
* We live in a crazy time, when people who make food choices that are healthy and compassionate are often considered weird, while people are considered normal whose eating habits promote disease and are dependent on enormous suffering.
** Ch. 10: An Ounce of Prevention
* We don’t realize that in the sizzle of our steaks there is the suffering of animals, the mining of our topsoil, the slashing of our forests, the harming of our economy, and the eroding of our health. We don’t hear in the sizzle the cry of the hungry millions who might otherwise be fed. We don’t see the toxic poisons accumulating in the food chains, poisoning our children and our earth for generations to come. But once we become aware of the impact of our food choices, we can never really forget… All things are deeply connected, and so the choices we make in our daily lives have enormous influence, not only on our own health and vitality, but also on the lives of other beings, and indeed on the destiny of life on earth. Thankfully, we have cause to be grateful—what’s best for us personally is also best for other forms of life, and for the life support systems on which we all depend.
** Ch. 12: All Things Are Connected
# Savio Rodrigues

Savio Oliver Ignatius Rodrigues (born 1976) is an Indian writer, journalist, serial entrepreneur, environmentalist, television presenter and politician from Goa. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of GoaChronicle.com. He is also the Bhartiya Janata Party Goa leader and state spokesperson of the Velim Assembly constituency.

## Quotes
### "Christians persecuted an unnecessary propaganda unleashed internationally: Indian Bishop" (2023)

    "Christians persecuted an unnecessary propaganda unleashed internationally: Indian Bishop" (April 14, 2023)
* As an Indian Christian, I have always advocated that claims of the ‘Christian’ community being persecuted in India are mostly exaggerated and play into a larger game plan to cover up the growing menace of forceful, coercive, and allurement-based conversion in India.
* Religious conflict is not unique to India. It happens in most parts of the world. Unfortunately, it appears that while there might be some genuine cases of religious conflict that must be addressed by the laws of the land firmly and strictly; most it seems are an exaggeration to create an impression that India and its majority population of Hindus are unleashing unwarranted atrocities on Christians.
* I believe that every Christian who is a victim of a religious hate crime must get justice under the laws of India but a Christian who falls prey to propaganda and works to portray India in questionable light must face the law for the lies spread.
# Rosaly Lopes

Rosaly M. C. Lopes (born January 8, 1957) is a planetary geologist, volcanologist, an author of numerous scientific papers and several books, as well as a proponent of education.

## Quotes

* Just showing a woman, in Houston’s [Texas, United States] control centre, was a very great inspiration for me,”
* "I am optimistic, I think that we will discover ways of using energy that do not cause global warming. The problem is that the question has become more political than scientific."
* "Inclusion is important because science needs talent, it needs dedicated people, and it does not matter it they are men or women, of different ethnicities, or anything. It is important to have youths aimed at a career in sciences and technology because it is our future. "
* "I was always of the opinion that, if somebody has a prejudice, the problem is theirs, not mine. It is better to go forwards and do the work in the best way that you can."
* "I grew up with the Apollo programme and it was that which inspired me a lot. I wanted to be an astronaut, at first, but I saw that I was a woman, Brazilian, and very short-sighted. So, really, it was not going to happen. I decided that I was going to help the space programme as a scientist. I decided this very early and never strayed from this path."
** . 15 May 2018, GlobalVoices. Retrieved: 29, November 2023.

## External Links

* ↑ Ross, Michael Elsohn (2014). A world of her own: 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. pp. 13–21. ISBN 9781613744383. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
# Mark Ruffalo

Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor and producer.

## Quotes

* The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
** Zoe Williams "Out of the Traps". The Guardian. (June 10, 2005).
** By "town" he means "Hollywood".
* I don't want to turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to resolve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room.
** Kira Cochrane "Mark Ruffalo's pro-choice stance on abortion rights sets a powerful example". The Guardian. (August 19, 2013).
* I'm baffled by the way all three buildings came down. My first reaction was that buildings don't fall down like that.
** "9 Stars Who Have Been 9/11 Conspiracy Truthers (Photos)". TheWrap. (September 11, 2017).
* We come together to mourn the lives lost to the same racist system that devalues Black lives and devalued the lives of Anthony and JoJo.
** 19 November 2021 tweet

## Quotes about Ruffalo

* Millennium Pipeline-the company behind the compressor-found itself up against not just a bunch of angry, local farmers but also a whole lot of angry New York City hipsters, celebrity chefs, and movie stars like Mark Ruffalo, calling not just for an end to fracking but for the state to shift to 100 percent renewables.
** Naomi Klein This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014)
# Leila Salazar-Lopez

Leila Salazar-Lopez is a Chicana-Latina environmentalist, who has served as the Executive Director of the non-profit Amazon Watch since 2015.

## Quotes

* The most biologically and culturally diverse place on the planet is under massive attack right now. The Amazon rainforest itself could be gone in a matter of the next 10 years. […] Unfortunately, one of the biggest causes of deforestation—definitely in the Brazilian Amazon—is agribusiness. Cattle, cattle grazing, and soy production in particular. […] People who were standing up against the lobbyists and the interests, the special interests, the cattle industry, the agribusiness industry, what was happening to them? A lot of people who were speaking out got killed. […] There’s people who were putting themselves out there and saying cattle ranching is destroying the Amazon. […] A lot of people will speak up, but a lot of people just keep their mouths shut because they don’t wanna be the next one with the bullet to their head.
** Interview in the documentary-film Cowspiracy by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (2014).
# Richard Sandbrook

John Richard Sandbrook (August 13, 1946 – December 11, 2005) was a British environmentalist, a co-founder of Friends of the Earth, who served as a director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

## Quotes
### "The State and Economic Stagnation in Tropical Africa" (1986)

This is an article published in World Development, vol. 14, #3 (1986), pp. 319-332
* Capitalist development requires, as a precondition, that the state foster a general sociopolitical and legal framework conducive to market relationships. An environment of security of property and predictability is basic to encourage investment; in turn, this requires political stability and a minimum degree of social harmony.
** p. 320
* A legal code that protects the prerogatives of the owners and is officially respected (and hence calculable) is another element.
** p. 320
* Also vital is the protection of the institution of private property through such steps as: limiting the claims and power of employees, abolishing traditional land tenure, safeguarding the sanctity of contracts, and guaranteeing full compensation in the event of nationalization.
** p. 320
* The problem is rather that many African states lack the capacity to establish the crucial conditions for capital accumulation and, additionally, act in economically irrational ways. This nondevelopmental or even antidevelopmental thrust is manifest in the mismanagement, inefficiency, and pervasive corruption of the public sector as well as political instability and the inability to prevent widespread evasion of laws and regulations.
** p. 321

## External links

* Guardian obituary (December 16, 2005)