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- The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of…
- As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and…
- The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things…
- One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical…
- The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to…
- Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in…
- The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical…
- The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
- There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;…
- All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to…
- It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
- I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
- I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is…
- Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time.…
- The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is…
- The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans.…
- The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,…
- It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they arenot to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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