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“We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.”

Ifs Way Helping Term Chance Deals Events Havens Type Weapons Lows Percent Scientist Treats Impact Threat Response Nuclear Defined Certainty Als Nuclear Weapons Probability Al Qaeda

Author:Dick Cheney

“All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.”

“I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on.”

Ifs Way Two Christ Wonder Support Happened Conditions Planets Percent Garden Scientist Intelligent Arguing Routine Agony Crucifixion Intelligent Life

Book:Flying to America: 45 More Stories

Source: Flying to America: 45 More Stories

“A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.”

May Theory Percent Scientist Accepted

Book:The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science

Source: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science

“I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.”

Want Needs Firsts Parent Generations Percent Scientist Planes Atmosphere Fuel Efficient Airplane Engineers Mars Flew Scientists And Engineers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive”

People Wells Would Be Used Results Knowing Dog Percent Tasks Scientist Rewards Punishment Experiments Performing Sixty Replaced Earning

Author:Steve Aylett

“To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”

Believe Political I Believe Clear Crazy Evolution Percent Scientist Election I Believe In Global Warming Call Me Occupy Movement Call Me Crazy

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.”

Years Chance Five Months Summer Percent Scientist Disappear Access Ice Data Five Years Navy Caps Submarines

Author:Al Gore

“In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.”

Said Taken Members Percent Scientist Elites Polls Academy

Book:God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

“On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.”

Five Risk Groups Television Ten Percent Scientist Entertainment Programming Prime Prime Time

Author:George Gerbner

“You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.”

Thinking Inspirational Stars Millions Becoming Percent Scientist Teenager Nba Realistic Teens Engineers Teenage

Author:Dean Kamen

“Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.”

Science Needed Percent Scientist Agree Climate Agreement Reduction

Author:Donella Meadows