Top 1200 Environmental Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Many people of color live on the front lines of environmental hazard and harm.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.

We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

No science is ever frightening to Christians. Religious people don't need the science to come out any particular way on IQ or AIDS or sex differences any more than they need the science to come out any particular way on evolution...If evolution is true, then God created evolution.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

[T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [...]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.

The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.

China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very large and it is most apparent in quality of the works.

Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.

The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.

People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and mathematics that a more apt definition became fully evident: mathematics is the science of patterns.

We're taking climate change seriously. But it's not the only environmental issue that we face as a planet.

Harmful Algal Blooms are a serious environmental and economic threat to New Jersey.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.

Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, "If science can't do something therefore religion can.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

It is a priority of my administration to continue New Hampshire's long tradition of Environmental Conservationism.

Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.