Earth Science Quotes:

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

- Laurel Clark

topic: Ozone, Space, Atmosphere, Space Science, Ozone Depletion

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Coexist, Religious Life

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

topic: Motivational, Nature, Past, Social Environment, Inspirational Earth

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

source: Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

topic: Earth, Guests, Forgotten, Inspirational Environmental, Wild Creatures

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

- Isaac Newton

source: Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Famous Last Words, Mathematics And Science

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Proclamation, Inspirational Science

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Change, Humility, Learning, Information Science, Good Science

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

- Mary McCarthy

source: Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

topic: Science, Men, Discovery, Earth Science, Copernicus

Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the way for the personal encounter with truth, and perhaps the privileged place for the encounter itself with God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Freedom, Science, Helping Others, Earth Science

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

- Gustav Meyrink

topic: Running, Writing, Earth, Earth Science, Red Thread

Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Giving, Promise, Climate, Earth Science, Colonizing Mars

Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

- Robert Ballard

topic: Motivation, Book, Inspiration, Earth Science, Wrong Answers

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

- Eric Alterman

source: Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama”, p.156, Nation Books

topic: Party, Class, Tea, Earth Science, Science Class

...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.

- Joanne Simpson

topic: Data, Research, Development, Accusing, Earth Science