There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.
. . . 99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!
No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.
I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel better. I don't want people to think any time there's a tragedy that I'm going to make a joke about it. It's only funny to me because it's personal to me. And that was always the goal. It wasn't to be this insult person.
The cross is steady while the world is turning.