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Meteorology Quotes

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

John von Neumann
Meteorology, Process, Unstable

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
Science, Weather, Meteorology

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Kenneth Arrow
Meteorology, Guarantees, Exactness
Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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
Successful, Meteorology, World
Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Randy Newman
Meteorology, Geography, Cosmology

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
Cooking, Meteorology, Would Be

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
Weather, Political, Meteorology
Thomas Sowell (2011). “Basic Economics”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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