Philosophy

I remember being on a spacewalk and had a few seconds to see a view that humans were not meant to see. It was like I was hearing from God. But then, I had to get back to work.

NASA Astronaut & International Space Station Commander

I came away from space flight realising that I don't have enough faith to be an atheist. Life is so amazing. When you look at the universe and the forces of nature, there just has to be a creator.

NASA Astronaut & International Space Station Commander

Nothing prepares you to actually see the Earth from space. I spent more than 7 months in space, and even on my last day that view never got old.

NASA Astronaut & International Space Station Commander

We must never confuse the pipe with the content. Today, we are fascinated by the pipe and nobody thinks of what is within.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

Your only duty is to take the rope and try to make a better one. Your only duty is to make the best rope you can for your children, for the next generation.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

If a product is really good, time will give it the justice of beauty -that's real beauty, intelligence beauty, honest beauty.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

We are the only species who have taken control of their evolution. We are animals who – one day – had an idea to become better. Billions of us have worked to make ourselves better.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

Disasters keep coming along at random intervals, they are not normally distributed. They either come randomly (in the case of war) or they are governed by power-laws (pandemics and earthquakes). That's hard for our brains to deal with… we don't like the idea that history is just a lot of random shocks without any predictable features.

British historian and author specializing in financial and military history

I genuinely believe that anyone can build grit or- indeed- any other trait such as kindness, empathy, curiosity, energy or cheerfulness. I don't want to say that we can all end-up being the exact same-person, but we can be different tomorrow to the person we are today.

Psychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Each person is trapped in their own world and assume that the rest of humanity sees the world the same way that they do. That assumption is incorrect. You see the world differently to me, and that's true for every situation in which we find ourselves.

Nobel Prize Winner in Economics for Behavioral Economics Research

You can think of the human mind as a measuring instrument. We're making judgements all the time and studies show that on a day-to-day basis, when presented with the same evidence, our judgements may be different.

Legal Scholar & White House Office of Management & Budget Administrator

Nothing in this world has deep enough roots to sustain us. We keep grasping for something in the world that we think will ease our existential pain, but the pain itself is a result of over-identifying with the world.

Author of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist

Western civilisation has veered off course; we have de-sacralised the world in which we live. We are collectively insane, and we need to mount our own intervention.

Author of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist

Every acorn is already programmed to become an oak tree, every embryo is programmed to become a baby, and every bud is programmed to become a blossom. Human beings are programmed as well, but we have something an acorn does not; free will.

Author of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist

I often hear people say that everything that matters must be measured, and if it can't be measured, it doesn't matter. I believe the absolute reverse. Nothing that matters can be measured.

Documentary filmmaker and philanthropist; great-granddaughter of Walt Disney

Even if I had all the money in the world, no problem worth fixing can be solved in my lifetime. The best I can do is to be part of the process, and to help the world figure it out.

Documentary filmmaker and philanthropist; great-granddaughter of Walt Disney