"Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt." — Camille Paglia

More Avert Quotes

This quote is filed under Avert Quotes, one of 53 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of… — Louis D. Brandeis
• When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of… — Felix Frankfurter
• Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science,… — Paul Krugman
• The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles,… — Kumi Naidoo
• Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just… — Al Gore
• There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster.… — Tony Blair
• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes… — Elizabeth Moon
• The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And… — Robert Olen Butler
• People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best. — David Chalmers
• The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport… — Kumi Naidoo
• In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. — Hafez

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