Here are 10 quotes
that may apply to climate
science and climate politics,
from "The Portable Curmudgeon"
a book edited by Jon Winokur:
A curmudgeon is a person
who hates hypocrisy
and pretense, and says so.
I resemble that definition.
1
"The believer is happy.
the doubter is wise."
Hungarian Proverb
2
"I respect faith, but doubt
is what gets you an education."
Wilson Mizner
3
"The presidency is now a cross
between a popularity contest
and a high school debate,
with an encyclopedia of cliches
the first prize."
Saul Bellow
4
"A good politician is
quite as unthinkable
as an honest burglar."
H. L. Mencken
5
"Have you ever seen
a politician talking
to a rich person
on television?"
Art Buchwald
6
"When I was a boy I was told
anyone could become President;
I'm beginning to believe it."
Clarence Darrow
7
"It's easier to fight for
for one's principles
than to live up to them."
Alfred Adler
8
"It's a scientific fact
that if you stay in California,
you lose one point
of your IQ every year."
Truman Capote
9
"Idealism increases
in direct proportion
to one's distance
from the problem."
John Galsworthy
10
"Randomness scares
people. Religion is a way
to explain randomness."
Fran Lebowitz