Geophysicist

🇺🇸Michael E. Mann

Education

b. 1965

"...If we fail to act to bring down our carbon emissions over the next decade, this will lock in disastrous melting of the ice sheets, sea level rise, and a rise in devastating weather extremes down the road."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science

1777–1855

"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."

🇺🇸George Saunders

Literature

b. 1958

"Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen."

Edmond Halley

Science

1656–1742

"Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."

🇺🇸Thomas Gold

Science

1920–2004

"A theorist can explain any correlation, and its inverse."

🇺🇸Claudia Alexander

Science

1959–2015

"There's a deep thirst and hunger to know more about space, literally because of the Star Trek phenomenon."