We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. – James Hansen
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that. – James Hansen
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. – James Hansen
You have no time to do the science if youre talking to the media. – James Hansen
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. – Orison Swett Marden
For — believe me — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into unchartered seas! – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), The Gay Science, “Book Four: St Januarius