Cleveland Abbe quotes

“As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.”
-- Cleveland Abbe

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“My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.”
-- Cleveland Abbe

#New York Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Cities Quotes

“True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.”
-- Cleveland Abbe

Source : Cleveland Abbe (1893). “The Meteorological Work of the U. S. Signal Service, 1870 to 1891”

#Inquiry Quotes #Hypothesis Quotes

“It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.”
-- Cleveland Abbe

Source : Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

#Long Quotes #Youth Quotes #Should Quotes

“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”

“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”

“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”

“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.”

“Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.”

Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

“Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.”

“Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.”

“A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.”