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December's Theme: Science and Health

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Mark Twain

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."
Spanish Proverb

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Albert Schweitzer

"Laughter is by definition healthy."
Doris Lessing

"(Sleep is) the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
Thomas Dekker

"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. "
Rabbi Harold Kushner

"Health is worth more than learning."
Thomas Jefferson

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."
Charles Caleb Colton

November's Theme: Chemistry

"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that – given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind – chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth."
Kenichi Fukui

"Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development."
Barry Commoner

"I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed."
Antoine Lavoisier

October's Theme: Geosciences and Planet Earth

"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
R. Buckminster Fuller

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
Wendell Berry

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
Marshall McLuhan

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth."
Alfred A. Montapert

September's Theme: Biodiversity and Conservation

"Conservation is humanity caring for the future."
Nancy Newhall

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
R. Buckminster Fuller

"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some."
Herbert Rappaport

"He that plants trees loves others beside himself."
Dr. Thomas Fuller

August's Theme: Weather & Climate

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
Paul Valery

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."
Patrick Young

"Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. "
E.B. White

"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."
Heinrich Heine

July's Theme: Astronomy

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
E. W. Dijkstra

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
Plato

"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."
Sir Arthur Eddington

"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
Carl Sagan

"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone?"
A. R. Ammons

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
Carl Sagan

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."
Stephenie Meyer

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
Theodore Roosevelt

June's Theme: Water and Oceans

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air..."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao. "
Lao-tzu

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
W.H. Auden

"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came."
John F. Kennedy

"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'. "
Michael McClary

May's Theme: Sustainability and Environment

"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children."
Kenyan Proverb

"When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."
John Muir

April's Theme: Energy Resources

"We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. ...All this we can do. And all this we will do."
President Barack Obama from his Inaugural Address

"Thanks to our recovery plan, we will double this nation's supply of renewable energy in the next three years."
President Barack Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009

March's Theme: Physics and Technology

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton

February's Theme: Evolution

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
Charles Darwin

"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms"
Lao Tzu

"The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain."
David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

January's Theme: The Process and Nature of Science; Communicating Science

"If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter"
Margaret Mead

"Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all."
Isaac Asimov

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]

Submitted Quotes

"Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People will not be able to completely avoid any alteration in the natural ecosystem, but they can so order their activities so as to avoid serious decrease in environmental quality."
Gilbert White

"Both science and art have the capacity to help us see much further than our everyday economy requires."
Holmes Rolston III

"Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realize, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them."
Charles Darwin

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of facts."
Carl Sagan

"If you torture the data long enough, Nature will confess."
Ronald H. Coase

"I never see what has to been done; I only see what remains to be done."
Marie Curie

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
Albert Einstein

"Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary."
Barry Lopez

"Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition."
Stephen Jay Gould

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COPUS Year of Science Themes by Month

January:	Process & Nature of Science
February:	Evolution
March:	Physics and Technology
April:	Energy Resources
May:	Sustainability and the Environment
June:	Oceans and Water
July:	Astronomy
August:	Weather and Climate
September:	Biodiversity and Conservation
October:	Geosciences and Planet Earth
November:	Chemistry
December:	Science and Health