Assessment Quote by Noam Chomsky

Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.

— Jamais Cascio

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the…

— Mohsin Hamid

Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is…

— Charles Lapworth

For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through…

— Vandana Shiva

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

— Charles Babbage

I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is to say…

— George Deukmejian

“people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious”

— Peter Thiel

“What has become of critique when someone as eminent as Stanley Fish, the “enemy of promises” as Lindsay Waters calls him, believes he defends…

— Bruno Latour

Fundamental to real expertise is 1: whether the informational structure of the environment is sufficiently regular that it's possible to make good predictions and…

— Dominic Cummings