"The National Academy of Sciences would be unable……" — Paul R. Ehrlich
"The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow."
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10 Quotes by Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich has 10 quotes on this site.
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The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
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I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
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In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will…
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I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
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By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
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Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little…
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We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.
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To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The…
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain…
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no…
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