Contact
Privacy
Book: Earth: The Operators' Manual
Quotes of Book: Earth: The Operators' Manual
TOP TAGS :santa-clausdeciethergirlfreakonomicsfinepolitical-sciencesavor-the-moment

  1. Richard B. Alley _ Earth: The Operators' Manual

    The switch to public sanitation may have cost more of the economy than the switch envisioned for the energy system, but the very large near-term payoffs of public sanitation made the economics much easier.
    book-quote

  2. Richard B. Alley _ Earth: The Operators' Manual

    Snow also saw that people who drank only beer in regions with bad air had less cholera than people who drank water in regions with better air. These and other inferences led him to suspect that the illness was waterborne and linked to human waste.
    book-quote

  3. Richard B. Alley _ Earth: The Operators' Manual

    In other words, Burt reported that the people were stuck with dumping their human waste out the windows because the available options were too technically demanding, or too expensive for people to agree to, or involved loss of money by established businesspeople who had influence with the government.
    book-quote

  4. Richard B. Alley _ Earth: The Operators' Manual

    Science is not the result of dispassionate machines spitting out Truth; it involves passionate humans pursuing truth and fame and next week's paycheck, while satisfying curiosity at the same time.
    book-quote
Categories