12 men from history giving advice while sitting on podiums
no 01. God
‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’
no 02. Elon Musk
‘I think the most important thing is to create a self-sustaining city on Mars. That’s, I think, the critical thing for maximizing the life of humanity; how long will our civilization last.’
no. 03 Ronald Reagan
‘Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.’'
no 04. Jeff Bezos after the brief space travel
‘Best day ever!’
no 05. Old Testament Author
’The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, But the earth He has given to the sons of men.’
no 06. Ernest Hemingway
‘There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.’
no 07. Pliny the Elder
‘The master’s eye is the best fertilizer.’
no. 08 Socrates
‘If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.’
no 09. Abraham Lincoln
‘All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself … are the infinitely various “leads” from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.’
no. 10 Adelar of Bath
‘Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues.’
no 11. Aristotle
‘Where then there is such a difference as that between soul and body, or between men and animals (as in the case of those whose business is to use their body, and who can do nothing better), the lower sort are by nature slaves. (..) It is better for them as for all inferiors to be under the rule.’
no. 12 Immanuel Kant
‘The moral law reveals to me a life independent of animality.’
sources of images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_catalogue_raisonn%C3%A9,_2007