B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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