"Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science."

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Source : "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

Jay Griffiths

#Media Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Climate Quotes

“We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.”

Source : Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.39, Routledge
“Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.”
“Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?”
“I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.”
“It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing.”
“We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.”
“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”
“You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it”

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