Vera Rubin Quotes

The Politics of Ecology

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

What’s been going on for years is political science, not good science in the environmental area.

Government Enviornmental poisitions are tradeoffs. In that process, Democrats tend to worry more about the harm done to the enviornment and the health of the people; Republicans tend to worry more about harm to business and the economy.

Just, you know, respect animals and the planet. And don't vote Trump.

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.

I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it.

I try to be eco-friendly in every possible way.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

In the age of global warming hysteria and the $93 trillion 'Green' New Deal, leftist advocates for more government intervention in the economy under the guise of environmentalism have engaged in a new smear: If you don't buy into climate change hysteria, you're a 'denier' who doesn't care about the environment.