Human Risk Quotes

For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

When you think about exploring deep space, it's very dangerous for humans. To potentially sacrifice human life is a delicate proposition. On the flip side, if you want to send a robot to another planet for an extended period of time and at some point you know it'll cease to function, it's not considered a tragedy.

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.

Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs.