Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.

What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.

I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.

It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

You have to stop to change direction.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.