B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” — Sharon Begley

    “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.” — Edwin Hubble

    “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

  2. Speaker 2


    “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan

    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” — Albert Einstein

    “The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.” — Bill Nye

  3. Speaker 3


    “Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” — Stephen Hawking

    “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” — Ray Bradbury 

    “Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. — Mae Jemison

  4. Speaker 4


    “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” — Stephen Hawking

    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” — Isaac Asimov

    “We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

  5. Speaker 5


    “If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling.” — Bill Nye

    “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” — Stephen Hawking

    “What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance.” — David Eagleman

  6. Speaker 6


    “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.” — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.” — Bill Nye

    “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

  7. Speaker 7


    People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.” — Stephen Hawking

    “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.” — Noam Chomsky

    “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.” — John Dewey

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” — Walt Whitman

    “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

    “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” — William Ernest Henley

  2. Speaker 2


    “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” — Emily Dickinson

    “Still I rise.” — Maya Angelou

    “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

  3. Speaker 3


    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” — John Keats 

    “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep.” — Robert Frost

    “To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower.” — William Blake

  4. Speaker 4


    “I, too, sing America.” — Langston Hughes

    “This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” — Maya Angelou

    “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” — Robert Frost

  5. Speaker 5


    “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” — William Faulkner

    “Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” — Emily Dickinson

    “Even in the grave, all is not lost.” — Edgar Allan Poe

  6. Speaker 6


    “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

    “Hold fast to dreams.” — Langston Hughes

    “Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky.” — T.S. Eliot

  7. Speaker 7


    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

    “Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me.” — Emily Dickinson

    “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” — Robert Frost