Carbon Quotes
377 Carbon quotes by 254 unique authors
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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and…
— David Suzuki
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual…
— Radhanath Swami
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I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.
— Fred Upton
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Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight…
— Robert Winston
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All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban…
— Geoff Mulgan
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The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,…
— Freeman Dyson
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Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search…
— Azar Nafisi
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The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.
— Jeanette Winterson
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But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those…
— Michael Pollan
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the…
— Carl Sagan
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All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll…
— Annie Dillard
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The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A…
— Napoleon Hill
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Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he…
— Douglas Adams
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Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet?…
— Bertrand Russell
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You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out…
— Steve Toltz
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I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK,…
— Grant Morrison
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The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A…
— Sylvia Plath
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Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo
— Michael A. Stackpole
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A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It…
— Bella Pollen
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Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5 g.…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Who Wrote These Carbon Quotes
254 authors contributed a total of 377 Carbon Quotes, led by these top contributors: