Science Quotes by Vandana Shiva

8 Science quotes by Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva’s eight remarks on science are short and imbued with her environmental activism. This modest set offers a quick look at how she ties scientific insight to ecological justice.

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I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted…

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I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the…

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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in…

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The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he…

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My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged…

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I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't…

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For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are…

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The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest…

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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we…

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The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates…

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Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would…

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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.…

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We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases…

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Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there…

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Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows…

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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and…

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I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal…

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