Irreversible Quotes

85 quotes by 77 authors

Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by… — Jacques Monod
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties… — Josh Jones
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. — Walter Lippmann
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if… — James Hansen
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine. — James Hansen
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in… — Thomas Berry
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the… — Ban Ki-moon
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level… — Kofi Annan
Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But… — Michael Brune
Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes… — Chris Huhne
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible. — Yosef Abramowitz
Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take… — Monica Bellucci
The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisionsâ€”one has to live with them, and we try. — Ekaterina Sedia
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.Â Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a… — Nelson Mandela
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the… — Tony Blair
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will… — Robert Goolrick

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