Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.

Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.

I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.

It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that.

Only beards can't make you count as a man, you need to have respect for women in your heart for that.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.

Age considers youth ventures.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].