Nigel Calder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
-- Nigel Calder

#Government #Trying #Scientist
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
-- Nigel Calder

#Discovery #Agitation #Arguing
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).
-- Nigel Calder

#Unity #Patterns #Belief
But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.
-- Nigel Calder

#Men #May #Firsts
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
-- Nigel Calder

#War #Ice #Age
Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.
-- Nigel Calder

#Mother #Running #Stars
It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don't show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists.
-- Nigel Calder

#Real #Air #Atmosphere

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf,
Exploration is the sport of the scientist
The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Nigel Calder famous quotes

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