Sue Hubbell Quotes
Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.
Topics
Consequences
Impact
Responsibility
Critical Thinking
Forecasting
Precision, Exactitude
Quickness
Risk Assessment
Causal Analysis
Consequential Thinking
Directness
Human Limitations
Human Skills
Long-Term Effects
Systemic Thinking
Technological Consequences
Unintended Effects
Unintended Outcomes
Decision-Making
Citations
Hubbell, Sue. Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about Genes. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
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Suzanne Hubbell was an American author. Her books A Country Year and A Book of Bees were selected by The New York Times Book Review as Notable Books of the Year. She also wrote for The New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of The New York Times.