Dalai Lama Quotes
A miracle is something unexpected which we do not understand. A hundred years ago, the jumbo jet would have been a miracle.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of the Tibetan Buddhists, PBS The Buddha, 2010
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Ataturk quickly envisioned the importance of the airplane. He even sent is daughter to Russia to learn to fly a plane, and she became the first Turkish Military Officer to do so. This was typical of Ataturk—killing two or more reform “birds” with one stone. He not only brought the airplane into the Turkish consciousness by having his daughter fly which attracted great attention of the press and got people talking, but showed that women were capable of the most complex technological tasks. Before Ataturk, few women in Turkey ever did anything but parenting and homemaking. Ataturk gave Turkish women the vote before America adopted women’s suffrage.
Cayley developed the first gliders and envisioned air travel at the same time that Thomas Jefferson was President.
Ibn Firnas was an Islamic Moor who first invented the glider and flew. Eilmer’s—see {588974}–achievement came afterward and may have been influenced by Crusader stories brought back about Ibn Firnas’s achievement.
Mother Shipton made a series of unusually accurate predictions, published throughout England, including the Great Plague of London, the Spanish Armada, & the Great Fire of London. Be wary of this particular quotation as while it may be a remarkable prediction, it also may well be a forgery.
By “arts” Jefferson meant the mechanical arts—inventions and engineering. Jefferson Extrapolated the science and technology progress at the time to the future in a way that few others did at that time.
He was totally wrong. This quotation is important because the cultural and practical value of new science or technology is often very unclear to the scientists and inventors themselves. Until humans start to integrate the science and use the technology, the cultural, ethical, and political patterns of usage are not easily predicted. Humans are the unpredictable elements of the system.
Born in the Ukraine to middle class parents, he became an successful engineer in Russia before he emigrated in 1919. America has not only been a magnet for the persecuted and the poor but highly skilled, and educated people came to America for the opportunity to further their career. No companies in Europe were then interested in producing large airplanes. In America, within 4 years he started his own company. He helped to design the famous Pan American Airways Flying Boats and in 1942 his company developed the world’s first production helicopter. He might have done that in France, Russia or elsewhere but he chose America like millions of other immigrants.
Mrs. Roosevelt hardly ever missed an opportunity to suggest that women could and should be in male-dominated occupations. She also reminded those who saw airplanes as technological marvels only that with technology people were more necessary than ever—and that they needed to be better educated.
Actually both of these predictions came true in half the time estimated. This is a good illustration of how technological innovation and utilization was accelerating throughout the 20th century.
His father, Henry Ford, did not agree that the Airplane would be so important, but the son’s vision made Ford the largest airplane manufacturer in America.
Dalai Lama (UK: /ˈdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/, US: /ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/; Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the classical schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India. The Dalai Lama is also considered to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed to be incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
