Roger Revelle quotes

Roger Revelle quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.”
-- Roger Revelle

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“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”
-- Roger Revelle

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“We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.”
-- Roger Revelle

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