15 Quotes by Nathaniel Rich

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.

Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979.

You know, in the Soviet Union they used to have a tradition of ordering scientists to change their studies to conform with the ideology then acceptable to the state. And scientists in the rest of the world found that laughable as well as tragic.

Awfulness can happen at any time. That’s what’s so awful.

If you devoted your life to the contemplation of disaster, then wasn’t an incident-free existence an empty one?