"What is the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"

--attributed to Frank Sherwood Rowland (professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, 1995, (born 1927, died 2012))

Source: Flannery, T. (2015). Atmosphere of hope: Searching for solutions to the climate crisis (p. ix). Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.