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.

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.

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

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

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.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

Sarah, honey, I hardly think kidnappers are going to take the time to buy a memento of their stay. I could be wrong, but it seems rather unlikely.

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn't do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe.