Jock Sturges Quotes

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

We are open to the world; the world is at our doorstep. It washes in, not just through the windows, but we are immersed in it completely - through the Internet, through the media, through people traveling, coming here, as well as Singaporeans going abroad.

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

The young people of every nation are coming to resemble each other more and more, and are slowly becoming strangers to chauvinism and racism.

The world is opening up. We all learn what is happening elsewhere. … The individual is fast becoming aware of his or her rights.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.

I love how small the world is.

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.

You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

Spaceflight gives us a chance to reflect on the context of our existence. We are reminded that we are human before any of our differences, before all of the lines are drawn that divide us.