“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.” ThinkingWorldNeedsMindPersonsIdeasShowsRunningSchoolYoungOpportunityGivenPlanetsDemandAuthorityEvidenceSacredTrainRationalBrethrenYoung Minds Author:Jack McDevitt
“See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.” WorldWayHumansWellsLooksForeverPlanetsPerspectiveEvidenceBlueGreenProfitBordersAlteredOrbit Author:Jack McDevitt
“We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. Theres evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didnt take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.” WaterPlanetsMoonEvidenceRiversMarsMiraculousEcosystemsVenusJupiterCometsSaturn Author:Robin Williams
“We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.” HomeExistenceWrittenPlanetsEvidenceSurfaceOur PlanetCivilisationBeacons Author:Brian Cox
“Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.” WayLongHas BeensFoundPlanetsLong TimeEvidenceLogicComplicatedScientific Evidence Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation.” WorldShouldDoeFactsRememberFightingOpinionFailingPlanetsBrokenEvidenceHelpfulLamentDevastation Author:John Green
“The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.” DoneFactsShowsValuesPassionPiecesPlanetsEvidenceConsistentlyDepressingNeverthelessInclinationComplacencyTrue Value Author:Annie Lennox
“If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that we have is how biotic systems have responded in the past.” IfsKnowsWantHumansEarthPastKnow HowPlanetsRight NowEvidenceBiosphere Author:Kenneth Lacovara
“There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.” IfsYearsHumansWould BeAbleMillionsDoubtPlanetsEvidenceNo Doubt Author:Kenneth Lacovara
“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.” NeedsHumansSelfCareEarthMovingResponsibilityMoralPlanetsProtectEvidenceCapacitySickTake CareGuidesHealDelusionImmenseRhetoricPowerlessTaking ResponsibilityImperativesSelf DelusionLaughable Author:Lynn Margulis
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.” WayWellsHas BeensWarHardUseHomeCareAgeSchoolJobsChoicesEnergyLostNationsEconomyViolenceFailingPlanetsUnderstoodEvidenceConsequenceHatredCrisisGreedHealth CareEach DayReachingCollectivesMidstShedNew AgeOur PlanetAdversariesIrresponsibility Author:Barack Obama
“Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.” MenEndsUniverseCreationPlanetsBirthEvidenceAppearanceClimaxJellyfish Book:Ishmael: A Novel Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.” FactsInterestingPlanetsPersonalityNormalAnxietyEvidenceAspectUnhappinessCompulsionInteresting ThingsFashionableStrangeness Book:The Psychopath Test Source: The Psychopath Test
“As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.” JesusChristEffectsCenturyPlanetsEvidenceJesus ChristInfluential Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette
“I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.” HumansInspirationMotivationSeaPlanetsOceanEvidenceIntelligentSomedayConservationIntelligent LifeOcean Conservation Author:Sylvia Earle
“It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic soup ever existed on this planet. We may therefore with fairness call this scenario the myth of the pre-biotic soup.” KindMayCasesPlanetsEvolutionEvidenceMythAriseFairnessSoupScenariosPrimeval Author:Fred Hoyle
“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.” HumansHas BeensEarthUsedNightDarkSpaceRaceLandChangedPlanetsDevelopmentDemandLimitsOceanExpectationsEvidenceAreasClimate ChangeAvailableCriticalForestsDesertAtmosphereHuman RacePoisonGlobal WarmingReachingAgricultureExploitationUrbanLitShrinkingUrban Development Author:Stephen Hawking
“There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is extraterrestrial. There are no acceptable arguments against flying saucer reality, only people who either haven't studied the relevant data or have a strong will not to believe that Earth is at the bottom of the heap sociologically and technologically in our local galactic neighborhood.” PeopleYearsMindBelieveRealityEarthStrongStudyDoubtHavensPlanetsEvidenceArgumentBottomFlyingLocalsDataNo DoubtNeighborhoodControlledOverwhelmingRelevantAcceptableVehicleInvestigationUfoPlanet EarthStrong WillExtraterrestrialFlying Saucers Author:Stanton T. Friedman
“The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition” PeopleEarthMy OwnAcceptingOpinionClearGreaterPlanetsEvidenceNotionAliensControlledOverwhelmingPropositionsPollsUfoPlanet EarthExtraterrestrialSpacecraftOpinion Polls Author:Stanton T. Friedman
“It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very high level of technology- and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer.” IfsLooksKindMeanMightFormUniverseLevelsTechnologyPlanetsCivilizationEvidenceDetailsDesignerBiologySignaturesHigh LevelBiochemistryMolecular Biology Author:Richard Dawkins