Top 29 Oreskes Quotes
#1. When historian of science Naomi Oreskes surveyed all peer-reviewed papers on climate change published between 1993 and 2003 in the world's leading scientific journal, Science, she found that there were 980 supporting the idea of human-induced global warming and none opposing it.
Donald R. Prothero
#2. Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.
Naomi Oreskes
#3. What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.
Naomi Oreskes
#4. Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.
Naomi Oreskes
#5. We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.
Naomi Oreskes
#6. A similar phenomenon developed with acid rain in the 1990s, as the media attended to the idea that its cause was still not established - more than a decade after that was no longer true - or the claim that it would cost more to fix than it was worth, which was unsupported by evidence.
Naomi Oreskes
#7. Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.
Naomi Oreskes
#9. Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
Paul Sadler
#10. We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves ... We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own ... We demand windows.
C.S. Lewis
#11. There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
Alan Greenspan
#12. I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.
Naomi Oreskes
#13. It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that.
Naomi Oreskes
#14. The philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124
Naomi Oreskes
#15. It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
Naomi Oreskes
#16. Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.
Naomi Oreskes
#17. The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions
Naomi Oreskes
#18. Did all of Singer's efforts to discredit mainstream science matter? When asked in 1995 where he got his assessments of ozone depletion, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, probably the most powerful man in Congress at the time, said, "my assessment is from reading people like Fred Singer."93
Naomi Oreskes
#19. When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.
Naomi Oreskes
#20. My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#21. The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
Naomi Oreskes
#23. When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.
Naomi Oreskes
#24. I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.
Naomi Oreskes
#25. As an independent source of authority and knowledge, science has always had the capacity to challenge ruling powers' ability to control people by controlling their beliefs. Indeed, it has the power to challenge anyone who wishes to preserve, protect, or defend the status quo.
Naomi Oreskes
#26. Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.
Naomi Oreskes
#27. So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?
Laurence Sterne
#28. The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Ann Landers
#29. Be patient with your troubles.
With patient you will overcome the mountains and the troubles.
Lailah Gifty Akita
