“God's will is often not done. We despoil rivers and lakes. We pollute land and air. We drive species into extinction. Given time we can do worse - or we can, by God's grace, do better. The late Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), who was a wiser theologian than Senator Inhofe, urged us to pray for "the wisdom to distinguish between those things that can and those things that cannot be changed and for the courage to change those things that should be changed". Certainly the distinction between those things that can and those things that cannot be changed is an important part of the understanding scientists seek. What we all need is the courage to change those things that should be changed.” WisdomChangeCourageImprovementPollutionExtinctionScience QuotesScientistsReinhold Niebuhr Book:Seeing Physics: 2,600 Years from Thales to Higgs Source: Seeing Physics: 2,600 Years from Thales to Higgs