Quotes About Consequences

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

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If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.