"...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely."

-- Gordon Brown

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“My name is growing all the time, and Iâ€™ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”
“A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?”
“If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.”
“It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.”
“I've always been a tech-head.”
“It's hard for me to put on weight.”
“Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.”
“Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.”

Source : "The aim and structure of physical theory". Book by Pierre Duhem, translated by Philip P. Wiener, p. 10, 1991.

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