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…

- Frederick Seitz

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…

- Frederick Seitz

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.

- Frederick Seitz

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

- Frederick Seitz

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

- Frederick Seitz

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…

- Frederick Seitz

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

- Frederick Seitz

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…

- Frederick Seitz

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…

- Frederick Seitz