I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our…

If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe,…

— Yann Martel

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to…

— Christopher Booker

I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And…

— Rick Perry

People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated…

— Bill McKibben

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that…

— Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think,…

— Arjun Makhijani

When a mother or father is willing to pay smugglers and risk the lives of their own children by sending them on a dangerous…

— Al Sharpton

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

— Rupert Murdoch

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust…

— I. A. Richards

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it…

— Carl Sagan

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel