Joe Barton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
-- Joe Barton

#Energy #Climate #Example
Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.
-- Joe Barton

#Wind #Way #Heat
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
-- Joe Barton

#Stars #Hero #Sacrifice
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
-- Joe Barton

#People #Way #Common
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
-- Joe Barton

#Common Sense #Trying #Regulation
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
-- Joe Barton

#United States #Nuclear #Kind
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.
-- Joe Barton

#Safety #United States #Nuclear
Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.
-- Joe Barton

#Mom #Dad #Kids
I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
-- Joe Barton

#Energy #Climate #Example

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusÃ¼dana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Joe Barton famous quotes

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