In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived. These consequences often contradict each other;. . . look to the end of an accomplished fact, and you will see that it has always produced the contrary of what was expected from it.
One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.
The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.
It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.
. . . if [the 91101 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message. '
I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come whether or not, for example, they originate in the physical universe as modern astrophysics has described it). But they manifest in the physical world and bring about definable consequences in that domain.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
What you do as president has consequences.
What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.
Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.
Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that.