Her legger jeg sitater som ennå ikke har kommet på plass i min Firefox Extension "clippings".
Det finnes også noen under XTRA, men jeg har gitt opp å omstrukturere i BEISTET "New Google Site" som er absolutt bunnivå av ubrukelighet!!!
Det er enkeltsitater, og undersider for personer. Disse finnes ellers kun som tekstfiler (TextEdit) imin iMac/Dropbox
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"Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic."
—Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993)
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."
—Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993)
"Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came."
― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
"Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs."
― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
"…the public perception of carbon dioxide has been dominated by the computer climate-model experts who designed the plan. The tribal group-thinking of that group of experts was amplified and reinforced by a supportive political bureaucracy."
― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
"The direct effects of carbon dioxide increase on plant growth and interspecific competition receive little attention. The plan is drawn up as if climatic change were the only serious effect of carbon dioxide on human activities. . .In a comparison of the non-climatic with the climatic effects of carbon dioxide, the nonclimatic effects may be:
1. more certain,
2. more immediate,
3. easier to observe,
4. potentially at least as serious.
… Our research plan should address these issues directly, not as a mere side-line to climatic studies."
― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
“The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find.”
― Iain McGilchrist
"There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model."
― Eliezer Yudkowsky
"In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable."
— Henrik Svensmark
"A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant."
—Manfred Eigen
"…all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind…"
— George E.P. Box (1919-2013)
"Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models."
— George E.P. Box (1919-2013)
"There is no more common error than to assure that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolute certain."
― Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
"Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century."
—Jay Wright Forrester (1918-2016)
"We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making."
― Ronald H. Coase (1910-2013)
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more.
The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops."
—Donella Meadows (1941-2001)