-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided…

Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature.…

— Werner Heisenberg

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises -…

— Geraldine Brooks

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

— KRS-One

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find…

— Norman Maclean

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

— Albert Pike

How can government reduce the frequency and the severity of future catastrophes? Companies that have the potential to create significant harm must be required…

— Richard Thaler

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government…

— Gary Johnson

The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian…

— E. O. Wilson

Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary…

— Norman Maclean

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem…

— George Santayana

One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful…

— Gilbert Burnet

“In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

— Adorno, Theodor W

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald

“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -…

— Karen Thompson Walker

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and…

— Margaret Heffernan