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Frank Sherwood Rowland
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“After all, what's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true.”
Frank Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Annals Of Chemistry: In the Face of Doubt by Paul Brodeur, The New Yorker, June 9, 1986. Cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope. Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Penguin Books, 2015, page 1 .