Meteorology Quotes

• Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Technology, Apples

  Joseph Henry (1972). “The Princeton years: January 1841 - December 1843”

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Weather, Computer

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• One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Guarantees, Exactness, One Thing

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

  John von Neumann

  Process, Unstable, Stable

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• Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

  Carl Sagan

  Successful, World, Safe

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

  Terry Pratchett

  Summer, Real, Moving

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

  Richard Lindzen

  Weather, Textbooks, World

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• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

  Randy Newman

  Geography, Cosmology

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• A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These considerations naturally divide the physics of the earth into three essential parts, the first being a theory of the atmosphere, or Meteorology, the second, a theory of the earth's external crust, or Hydrogeology, and the third, a theory of living organisms, or Biology.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Atmosphere, Sound

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• Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more akin to religion. The main epicenter of hysteria is not the scientific community but seems to be Hollywood.

  Doug Casey

  Hysteria, Community, Hollywood

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books

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• I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

  Jim Parsons

  College, Class, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.

  Jim Nollman

  Spiritual, Art, Flower

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• When I was going to college, there were probably four colleges in the nation that offered a major in meteorology. I wasn't fortunate enough to be in a part of the country where that was readily accessible. I have been doing weather since I graduated from college. I feel solid about what I'm doing.

  Sam Champion

  Country, College, Weather

  "Breakfast With Champion". Interview with Jada Yuan, nymag.com.

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• Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

  W. H. Auden

  Cooking, Would Be, Three

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• From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

  William James

  Art, Law, Culture Religion

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• I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.

  Philippe Petit

  Fighting, Wind, Practice

  Source: collider.com

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• Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Weather, Political, Causes

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Basic Economics”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

  Piers Corbyn

  Queens, College, Class

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