Monday, April 21, 2008

Florence Nightingale



A pioneer in the nursing field, she established herself as a competent nursing administrator during the Crimean War, where her insistence on sanitary conditions cut the death rate considerably. She continued to advance the field in her later years, providing better health service and opportunities for women at the same time.

Florence Nightingale said:"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words;they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

Reference
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/florence_nightingale.html

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Stephen Hawking



"The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future giving a direction to time, there are ar least three different arrows of time. First, there is the thermodynamic arrow of time, the direction of time in which disorder or entropy increases,then, there is the psychological arrow of time. This is the direction in which we feel time passes, the direction in which we remember the past but not the future. Finally, there is the cosmological arrow of time,this is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting."

Reference
A Brief History of Time,Chapter9 The Arrow of Time,page185

Jane Goodall


Jane Goodall, PhD, CBE has been working with and for Chimpanzees for more than 40 years. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation to conserve primate habitat; foster positive relationships among people, the environment, and animals; and promote activities that ensure the well-being of chimpanzees and other animals, both wild and in captivity.

The Quote from Jane Goodall:
"People say to me so often,'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and i always answer that it is the peace of the forest that i carry inside."

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Sunday, April 6, 2008