Quotes by Meteorology 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 meteorology successful world 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 meteorology weather science All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. John von Neumann meteorology unstable process One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness. Kenneth Arrow meteorology exactness guarantees I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology. Randy Newman meteorology cosmology geography 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 meteorology political weather 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 meteorology cooking would-be
