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I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. ”
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America. ”
We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities. ”
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5. ”
There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely. ”
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. ”
After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested. ”
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. ”
The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming. ”
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear. ”