When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.

~ Michael Crimmins

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Around the lab I heard that publicity was measured in an absolute unit, the kan. That unit was too large for ordinary application and a practical unit one one-thousandth of the size served in its place, the millikan.

~ Luis W. Alvarez

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