Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

People love conspiracy theories.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I don’t have all the answers.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

I think that once you fully understand the climate and ecological emergencies, then you know what you can do as well. And, of course, there’s a lot of things you can do in your everyday life, but we cannot be focusing on these individual things you can do. We have to see the full picture.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn’t care about it, my classmates didn’t care about it, my relatives didn’t care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we’re going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

I really don’t believe in magic.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Let no such man be trusted.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.