#scientists

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#actually #agree #climate #like #more

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#cholesterol #disparate-interests #husbands #lack-of-interest #married-couples

Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.
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— Jarod Kintz

#planet #pluto #published #science #scientists

For scientists, reality is not optional. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#science #scientists #science

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#brooklyn #build #buy #people #scientists

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#case #corporations #environmental #every #hazards

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#command #had #highly #scientists #skilled

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #facts #failed #field #focused

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#advertising #after #artists #attracted #business

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#efforts #forms #fully #government #international