But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.


Bjorn Lomborg

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON
Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
This is the strangest life I have ever known.
JIM MORRISON
You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA
So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON
It is sobering. You think when you come here everyone is the best of the best and they are going to ...
MICKY MALLETTE
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute ...
WILLIE GEIST
Being kissed is an occupational hazard of police work.
JACK MORGAN
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN
Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ
Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
If something goes wrong, say a particular aspect of a software system that the market is using, then...
RUSSELL BROWN
She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON
Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
DEYTH BANGER
Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST
The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS
I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have ...
JOEL OSTEEN
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read...
KEVIN J. ANDERSON
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
DAVID MORRISSEY
If you live in a city like Chicago, New York, San Francisco or Austin, this is not the last time you...
ANDREW KENNY
Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER
If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
The way to be a man of prayer, and be governed by its spirit, is not to get a book full of prayers; ...
WILLIAM LAW
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN
While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
But I've been pretty lucky, the press have been very good to me but yes, there are certain instances...
ZOE LUCKER
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It...
HELEN MIRREN
If you don't have the fertilizer and don't have the seed, I can tell you what, none of it will happe...
FRANK HEFNER
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already differen...
YOKO ONO
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the co...
RICHARD RUSSO
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER
There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA
Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of...
DAVID BERGEN
This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat....
MARYA HORNBACHER
You're not going to get value in any way, shape or form. This is an A-1 hitter and you're not going ...
BILL LAJOIE
Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID
Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
In working with over 2,000 people, you are never going to be able to have everyone say this is somet...
ANN WALSH
Anytime you have sessions like this coming together, people are going back talking. The word is mult...
RICHARD KLINE
Music is an expression of your experiences, but it can't be an expression in a way that people can't...
LANCE BENNETT
Music is an expression of your experiences, but it can't be an expression in a way that people can't...
LANCE BENNETT
Is this going anywhere? I have some important "Not being in the same room as you" to get done.
BRIAN CLEVINGER
The thing about real life is that important events don’t announce themselves. Trumpets don’t blow,...
EDITH SCHAEFFER
If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to...
DREW HOUSTON
Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and gettin...
ZACHARY TY BRYAN
I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'W...
MUHAMMAD ALI
You have to realise that everyone that you are working with is important. It doesn't matter wher...
GIGI HADID
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a yea...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with ...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with e...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong ...
PHILIP ROTH
It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any br...
MIKE DAVIDSON
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometim...
DAN QUISENBERRY
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL
You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There'...
EMINEM
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never ...
JOHN GREEN
Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF
Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to ...
JOSS WHEDON
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose...
JON KATZ
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Everybody is going to know the signals so that I only have to say it once and we can get lined up an...
DOUG JUSTICE
I love exercise. Prior to learning about mountain biking, I was a jogger. And then, like a lot of ba...
GEORGE BUSH
The best way for him to win over people was to have come clean and not have a book going on sale. Th...
DAVID SCHWAB
A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA
This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY
Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and some...
JENNY LAWSON
I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming...
E. P. THOMPSON
Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled...
JUDITH VIORST
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER

More Bjorn Lomborg

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the ...
BJORN LOMBORG
Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to b...
BJORN LOMBORG
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronut...
BJORN LOMBORG
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the...
BJORN LOMBORG
Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be mo...
BJORN LOMBORG
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be ser...
BJORN LOMBORG
In the same way, we have to investigate the solar mechanism, but right now, the IPC claims that it's...
BJORN LOMBORG
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to ...
BJORN LOMBORG
I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that th...
BJORN LOMBORG
I really have to stress, I don't have a positive view. I'm not here to cheer people up. If the botto...
BJORN LOMBORG
I certainly worry and feel uncomfortable that people I have very little in common with politically w...
BJORN LOMBORG
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they'r...
BJORN LOMBORG
A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they did...
BJORN LOMBORG
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sa...
BJORN LOMBORG
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on ea...
BJORN LOMBORG
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants th...
BJORN LOMBORG
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
BJORN LOMBORG
When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally ...
BJORN LOMBORG
Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre se...
BJORN LOMBORG
Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the...
BJORN LOMBORG
We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a ce...
BJORN LOMBORG
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be ser...
BJORN LOMBORG
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but inste...
BJORN LOMBORG
If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the lon...
BJORN LOMBORG
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happe...
BJORN LOMBORG
I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it ...
BJORN LOMBORG
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that th...
BJORN LOMBORG
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want...
BJORN LOMBORG
There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems...
BJORN LOMBORG
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
BJORN LOMBORG
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more l...
BJORN LOMBORG
I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is co...
BJORN LOMBORG
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they&#...
BJORN LOMBORG
Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense....
BJORN LOMBORG
A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they did...
BJORN LOMBORG
There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures...
BJORN LOMBORG
The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a pro...
BJORN LOMBORG
When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have ...
BJORN LOMBORG
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase th...
BJORN LOMBORG
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a co...
BJORN LOMBORG
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
BJORN LOMBORG
The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your ...
BJORN LOMBORG
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
BJORN LOMBORG
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is righ...
BJORN LOMBORG
We know that temperatures have gone up and it's partly caused by man. But let's hold our horses beca...
BJOERN LOMBORG
In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase w...
BJORN BAYLEY
Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amaz...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enorm...
BJORN ULVAEUS
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural ha...
BJORN ULVAEUS
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
BJORN ULVAEUS
I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they ar...
BJORN ULVAEUS
I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.
BJORN ULVAEUS
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, ...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human right...
BJORN ULVAEUS
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that h...
BJORN ULVAEUS
We've seen ... substantial occupancy increases, which cause developers, lenders and others to have c...
BJORN HANSON
Hotel buyers have to be much smarter now than they did a year or two ago.
BJORN HANSON
The economics are extremely compelling. It is good for every reason we can think of.
BJORN HANSON
People see value in having these intensive services. If you are flying in and get home late, they wa...
BJORN HANSON
Although the maintenance and general condition of U.S. hotels is the best it has ever been, the indu...
BJORN HANSON
What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent year...
BJORN HANSON
Everyone is asking for favors, for special consideration,
BJORN HANSON
What will happen, daily, is that the general manager or the director of sales or the representative ...
BJORN HANSON
[But it doesn't end there.] Guests will pay more for food and beverage and the use of fitness facili...
BJORN HANSON
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial securit...
BJORN BORG
If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
BJORN BORG
You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.
BJORN BORG
When John McEnroe called me several times and wondered what I was doing, I guess I woke up.
BJORN BORG
If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think ...
BJORN ULVAEUS
I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because the...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we...
BJORN ULVAEUS
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until th...
BJORN BORG
You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more ...
BJORN BORG
Roger Federer is stylish.
BJORN BORG
As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I m...
BJORN BORG
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial sec...
BJORN BORG
I looked at a plaque in the clubhouse earlier in the week and I saw who shot 63 here.
THOMAS BJORN
Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.
BJORN ULVAEUS
Let's put a lid on it. My results this year have shown I'm way beyond it. I've left those things beh...
THOMAS BJORN
He's not a one-major guy, he's a 10-major guy. He's going to go on now and contend for majors as he'...
THOMAS BJORN
We all saw how important Tiger was for the game on Friday,
THOMAS BJORN
It isn't a fit nickname. It is, in a way. He's an easy guy. He goes with the flow. But he's a very p...
THOMAS BJORN
It's not a great slot, but what can you do? It's difficult at this time of year with so much going o...
THOMAS BJORN
The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it&...
BJORN ULVAEUS
1998 is turning out to be a transition year for the lodging industry, ... After seven consecutive ye...
BJORN HANSON
There are several reasons why these data are not available. In many parts of the world there are sim...
BJORN HANSON
[But will such balancing acts work? Analysts are doubtful.] No one is doing a great job, ... It's ve...
BJORN HANSON
There are some cities where there are still extraordinary discounts,
BJORN HANSON
We are in the early days of what could turn into a major humanitarian catastrophe. The alarm has bee...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST
But clearly McEnroe convinced me.
BJORN BORG
After great consideration and reasoning, I have decided that I will never sell my Wimbledon trophies...
BJORN BORG
I now realize how closely connected they are to my success as Wimbledon's winner in 1976-1980 and th...
BJORN BORG
Obviously, it is not easy to part with the trophies that symbolize all the tremendous effort, both p...
BJORN BORG
However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me and now believe t...
BJORN BORG
Even though the symbols of my victories are being sold, what I will always retain is the knowledge t...
BJORN BORG
I hope people will enjoy watching us because we are definitely coming to Dubai to communicate our ow...
BJORN BORG
I don't know what we are going to do to find more speed. If I try to drive the car faster, I end up ...
BJORN WIRDHEIM
Montreal is the only track that we visit this year that I have raced on before,
BJORN WIRDHEIM
I was there last year with Jaguar for the Formula One race, and I did the Friday practice.
BJORN WIRDHEIM
Large deals just aren't getting done. We continue to see smaller deals, but companies are still hesi...
BJORN TURNQUIST
Depressed valuations may help fuel acquisitions in specialty finance and asset management and broker...
BJORN TURNQUIST
M&A in insurance was bleak this quarter. Equity market jitters combined with accounting and reserve ...
BJORN TURNQUIST
There's uncertainty within the insurance industry, as companies are currently unwilling to take the ...
BJORN TURNQUIST
We live in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable growth issues.
BJORN STIGSON
Business has a key role to play. Here we are. It is up to us to create a sustainable path in the wor...
BJORN STIGSON
I grew up watching and admiring Agassi. He is a legend. So this definitely is the biggest win of my ...
BJORN PHAU
The total number of people in need of food assistance will be just below 10 million for 2006.
BJORN LJUNGQVIST
Already we have an emerging crisis in the pastoral regions of Ethiopia with about 1.7 million people...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST
This is the largest non-food appeal since the drought emergency of 2003 in Ethiopia.
BJORN LJUNGQVIST
As ever, women and children will bear the brunt of this disaster.
BJORN LJUNGQVIST
The alarm has been raised in time but if we don't get the support we need, the results could be cata...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST
Without urgent help the drought could spiral. Urgent emergency intervention in the form of food, wat...
BJORN LJUNGQVIST
There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happine...
BJORN ULVAEUS
I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Po...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first rac...
BJORN BORG
Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. ...
BJORN ULVAEUS
There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concer...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.
BJORN ULVAEUS
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural th...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of cr...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ...
BJORN ULVAEUS
In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.
BJORN ULVAEUS
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is tod...
BJORN ULVAEUS
In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I ...
BJORN ULVAEUS
There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen t...
BJORN ULVAEUS
In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for t...
BJORN ULVAEUS
I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage i...
BJORN ULVAEUS
All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember ...
BJORN ULVAEUS
When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.
BJORN BORG
I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants a...
BJORN BORG
I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.
BJORN BORG
I enjoy fashion.
BJORN BORG
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story fr...
BJORN BORG
You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on cl...
BJORN BORG
I just hated to lose.
BJORN BORG
I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be w...
BJORN BORG
It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk a...
BJORN BORG
I wanted to win, even in practice.
BJORN BORG
If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
BJORN BORG
I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If...
BJORN BORG
But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt...
BJORN SHEN
I think nothing is inherent.
BJORN G. AMELAN
There's a multitude of things happening on stage. It's OK not so see everything. People should treat...
BJORN G. AMELAN
So it's a positive symbol of beauty.
BJORN G. AMELAN
Dance is powerful because it's a visual art form that's entirely body-based. A body - it's something...
BJORN G. AMELAN