Earth Science Quotes

• We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

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  Laurel Clark

  Ozone   Space   Atmosphere  

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• We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

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  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Science   Rivers   Environmental  

  Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

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• Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

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  Eric Alterman

  Party   Class   Tea  

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama”, p.156, Nation Books

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• Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

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  Mary McCarthy

  Science   Men   Discovery  

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

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  Carl Sagan

  Change   Learning   Humility  

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

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  Robert Ballard

  Motivation   Book   Inspiration  

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• ...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.

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  Joanne Simpson

  Data   Research   Development  

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• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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  Isaac Newton

  Trust   Truth   Ocean  

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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  Albert Einstein

  Love   Life   Motivational  

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational   Spiritual   Nature  

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

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  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational   Nature   Animal  

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

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  Carl Sagan

  Change   Science   Theoretical Physics  

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

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  Gustav Meyrink

  Running   Writing   Earth  

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• Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the way for the personal encounter with truth, and perhaps the privileged place for the encounter itself with God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.

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  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom   Science   Helping Others  

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• Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

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  Buzz Aldrin

  Giving   Promise   Climate  

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

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  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational   Funny   Motivational  

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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