Occupation: Physicist Birth: July 4, 1911 Death: March 2, 2008
This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmfu….
The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, becaus….
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions..
Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmosph….
But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the c….
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do ….
Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation..
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs..
In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences an….
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electro….
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mat….
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....