Famous Quotes

"I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can."

James Hansen on Science

More quotes about Science

• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by James Hansen

• "Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap."

• "Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that."

• "You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media."

• "What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet."

• "With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years."