User:Mariordo
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This user is a World Citizen, has set foot in 37 countries, |


| Mariordo | ||
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My Favorite Quotations
Best U.S. transit-oriented development (TOD)
Pioneer in sustainable mobility
World's largest rechargeable electric car market penetration, with 39.6% of plug-in cars on the road by December 2025
"The more I learn the more I know there is to know", or "The only true knowledge is knowledge of one's own ignorance", adapted from Socrates "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance", as quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers
"The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game".
— Karl Popper, 1935, in "The Logic of Scientific Discovery"
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth", Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution".
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", Carl Sagan.
"Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake"
"Passion (in any argument) is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available", Gregory Benford.
"Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not"
"The cardinal sin, when we are looking for truth of fact or wisdom of policy, is refusal to discuss, or action which blocks the discussion", Sidney Hook, in "The Ethics of Controversy"
"...(modern) science has become rather like the Catholic Church of Galileo's time, and about as receptive to criticism'", David Orrell, in "The Future of Everything"
"Financial models are no excuse for resting your brain", John Kay, in The Financial Times (2009-01-27)
"(Climate scientists) have too often mistaken real doubts for scurrilous attacks, and relied on mutual reinforcement rather than open debate, on authority rather than argument" in The Economist (2010-07-10).
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it", Alan Key, in Steve Jobs (biography)
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
"Experts, when they try to forecast the future, are usually wrong", Freeman Dyson, in The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
"If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories", Karl Popper
"You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues"
"Democracy will never be supplanted be a republic of experts - and that is a very good thing", Thomas Piketty
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My banners
| Editor of the Week | ||
| Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your excellent work. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
| The Brazil Star | ||
| You are awarded this barnstar for completely revamping after more than 70 edits the Ethanol fuel in Brazil article. So much information was added that this article that once had just 16 source citations now boasts over 85 source citations. Good Job! ⇨ EconomistBR ⇦ Talk 02:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| Congratulations, Mariordo, on bringing Flexible-fuel vehicle up to GA. Well done! Johnfos (talk) 05:17, 31 October 2008 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
| Thank you for your tireless and excellend work improving many articles on electric vehicles! Ebikeguy (talk) 19:45, 5 April 2010 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For your work on electric vehicle warning sounds. It looks great what you did, I couldn't have done as good a job. - Epson291 (talk) 01:44, 6 July 2010 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| Congratulations, you have contributed a large body of work to WP without sacrificing quality, and now have four excellent GA articles. Thank you for your efforts. You really are the kind of editor WP needs... Johnfos (talk) 22:12, 28 August 2010 (UTC) |

| The Special Barnstar | ||
| It was an inspiration to see the way you worked through your holidays to bring yet more articles up to GA. Well done! Johnfos (talk) 21:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC) |
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The Environmental Barnstar | |
| For extensive, ongoing work on environmentally-important articles. Thank you! Ebikeguy (talk) 01:09, 11 February 2011 (UTC) |
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The Modest Barnstar | |
| Thanks for your recent contributions!-129.49.72.78 (talk) 19:11, 29 April 2011 (UTC) |
| The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia | ||
| Dear Mariordo, You are an outstanding editor, contributing quality text (in various languages) and superb images. You have brought many articles up to FA and GA and created other recognised content. You are always polite and helpful with other editors. Well done... you really are a Superior Scribe... Johnfos (talk) 12:53, 30 May 2013 (UTC) |
| The Copyeditor's Barnstar | |
| Thanks for the cleanup on Kia Soul EV. I was not aware when I created the article that it must contain the name of the car manufacturer in the title. I was able to read through the guidelines and now have a better understanding. You cleanup on the article is what led me there. Thanks again. CNMall41 (talk) 13:27, 11 March 2014 (UTC) |
| The Photographer's Barnstar | |
| Thank you for your work regarding the pictures for the LV shooting. Bobherry Talk Edits 13:32, 3 October 2017 (UTC) |
| The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| For your superb in-depth work on articles related to environmental friendly vehicles! Vauxford (talk) 00:52, 23 September 2018 (UTC) |
| Citizen of the World |
| Mariordo |
| Editor of the Week for the week beginning March 4, 2018 |
| A contributor of quality text and superb images since 2007 with over 58000 edits. Functions in various languages and has brought many articles to FA/GA status. Always polite and helpful with all editors. An active member of the Green Vehicle Task Force and WP:Transport. |
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More quotations
"... there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know", Socrates in Gorgias
"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics", Richard Dawkins
There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions..." Karl Popper
"I do not attempt to convert my opponents - I aim at converting their audience", David Goodman (DGG), Wiki Administrator
"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws", attributed to Albert Einstein.
"Imagine there's no countries, ... No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace..." John Lennon, Image, 1971.

"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail", Albert Einstein
My favorite natural sites, historical places and cities
Wonders of Nature
Archaeological sites
Historical cities
Favorite cities
My favorite wonders of engineering
Wonders of empirical engineering
Modern wonders of engineering
My Main Collaborations and To Do's
Astronomy, science, books, and personalities
Urban transportation and highways
Alternative fuel and vehicles
Sustainable development and economics
Cities, regions and countries
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| Central America | América Central | Central America |
| Latin America | Latinoamérica | América Latina |
| Costa Rica | Costa Rica | Costa Rica |
| Brasilia | Brasilia | Brasília |
| Meeting of Waters | Encuentro de las Aguas | Encontro das Águas |
| Cuenca del Caribe | ||
| Anexo:Volcanes de Costa Rica | ||
| Anexo:Playas de Costa Rica | ||
| Sudeste de Brasil Región Sudeste de Brasil | ||
| Centro-Oeste de Brasil Región Centro-Oeste de Brasil | ||
Top pictures in Wikimedia Commons by usage
Most used pictures taken and uploaded by User:Mariordo in Wiki pages/projects (any language more than ten pages)
- Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Wiki: en de fr ja it pt es eo he ar bg vi eu hi ta ga ml fiu-vro mn ks ... +100 pp - Meeting of Waters
Manaus
Brazil
Wiki: an ar ca en eo es fr fy gl it ka ml nl no pt sv te zh... +30 pp
| This user has visited 13 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. | 13 |
"Brazil is the country of the future... and it always will be."
— Popular and time-honoured Brazilian joke, inspired by Stefan Zweig, an Austrian who wrote the book "Brazil, Land of the Future" praising his new homeland
Banners created by Mariordo
User is Citizen of the World, has set foot in 26 countries, |
| This user is from Costa Rica | and lives in Brazil |
| This user is from Costa Rica | and lives in the U.S. |
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