"There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our best possible approximation of reality. But that often gets forgotten in the way the public perceives and describes our work."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Hans von Storch

#Reality Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Scientist Quotes

“Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.”
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
“The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.”
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

Source : Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press
“There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.”
“What you earn depends on what you learn.”
“I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.”
“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”

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