"What's the use of having developed a science……" — Elizabeth Kolbert
"What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"
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12 Quotes by Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert has 12 quotes on this site.
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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most…
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that…
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and…
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so,…
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make…
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s…
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and…
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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