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“We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science.”
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“I don’t believe I can let this subject pass by leaving my own conflicted emotions unconfessed. When Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1978, I dismissed it as a minor achievement for a scientist, scarcely worth listing. When I won the same prize the following year, it wondrously became a major literary award of which scientists should take special note.”
― The Meaning of Human Existence
― The Meaning of Human Existence
“I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely.”
― A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
― A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
“Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.”
― The Meaning of Human Existence
― The Meaning of Human Existence
“Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.”
― Quotations by Nikola Tesla
― Quotations by Nikola Tesla
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