7 Quotes by Frederick Seitz

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text...