José Saramago Quotes

“En su habitación del hotel la muerte, desnuda, está delante del espejo. No sabe quién es.”

“En su habitación del hotel la muerte, desnuda, está delante del espejo. No sabe quién es.”

“When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of change. For a people is always in the making or unmaking.”

“We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.”

“Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.”

“I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.”

“I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.”

“A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.”

“I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.”

“Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.”

“I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.”