Science Quotes - Page 37

• The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Mistake, Law, History

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• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

  J. B. Priestley

  Lonely, Typewriters, History

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• Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Inspiration, Numbers, Accomplishment

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• Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

  Richard Asher

  Hope, Dope, Drug

  Lancet I: 954 (1958)

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• I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

  A.C. Grayling

  People, Tree, Drug

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• Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Expression, Atoms, Energy

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• For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Different, Use, Want

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Light, Should Have, Paris

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• It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Food, Water, Coal

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

  Frederick Soddy

  Philosophy, Teaching, Men

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• The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Law, Energy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

  Vladimir Vernadsky

  Change, Earth, Energy

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• CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.

  James Hansen

  Long, Humanity, Energy

  "Twenty years later: tipping points near on global warming" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2008.

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• ...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.

  Al Gore

  Moon, People, Energy

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• If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

  Nicholas Stern

  Energy, Climate, Would Be

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

  Al Gore

  Oil, Atmosphere, Special

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.263, Rodale

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• We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

  David Suzuki

  Jail, Effort, Leader

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• Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible.

  Donald Brown

  Energy, Climate, Environment

  "Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity?" by Donald Brown, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Years, Doubt, Energy

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• Heat may be considered, either in respect of its quantity, or of its intensity. Thus two lbs. of water, equally heated, must contain double the quantity that one of them does, though the thermometer applied to them separately, or together, stands at precisely the same point, because it requires double the time to heat two lbs. as it does to heat one.

  Joseph Black

  Two, Water, Black

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• One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

  Niels Bohr

  Butterfly, Color, Wings

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• I don't believe in mathematics.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Math, Belief

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• From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Country, Writing, Journey

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• Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Journey, Biographies

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

  Giovanni Battista Beccaria

  Nature, Enquiry, Behaviour

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