45 Inspirational Mario J. Molina Quotes (2023)

1. Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion. - Author: Mario J. Molina

2. “We have to realize that we are part of nature, and we depend on it for our survival.”

3. “The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”

4. The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things. - Author: Mario J. Molina

5. “We can say, ‘Let our grandchildren worry about it.’ But it’s harder to change later.

6. “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

7. “The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”

8. “We have a moral obligation to take care of the planet, not just for ourselves, but for future generations.”

9. “Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many tough problems, and we need everybody’s help to solve the problems. ”

10. “I made a decision it was not enough to just do the science but to also try to do something about directly applying scientific research to societal problems”

11. “Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different

12. Beginning in 1986, a series of field experiments were designed to test the various hypotheses which had been put forth to explain the Antarctic ozone hole. - Author: Mario J. Molina

13. “Finding out for myself, for the first time, how something works is really an enormous driving force.”

14. “. . the planet is just too small

15. “The scientists I looked up to at the beginning were not Latino. They were famous scientists of many years ago, like Madame Curie. Later, I realized that there were also, but a very few, Latino scientists. There were good ones, but very few, because there wasn’t as much a tradition to be a scientist in our culture. But this is changing. ”

16. “We need to go beyond the low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency and start thinking about renewables as the backbone of our energy system.”

17. “The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things. ”

18. “The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change. ”

19. “Finding out for myself, for the first time, how something works is really an enormous driving force. “Climate change, like depletion of the ozone layer, is proof of the damage human activities exert on earth at the global level.

20. In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone. - Author: Mario J. Molina

21. “The only way we’re going to solve these problems is by bringing the knowledge and the willpower together.”

22. “Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds.”

23. “We need to think of the environment as something that sustains us rather than something that we have to protect from ourselves.”

24. “We have to have international cooperation in order to tackle climate change.”

25. “I am an optimist. I am positive. It’s possible to do the necessary changes, but it’s not going to be easy. It will take a lot of hard work. I have a lot of trust in the children now, in young people. I think they are paying more and more attention to the problems of our planet”

26. “Climate change, like depletion of the ozone layer, is proof of the damage human activities exert on earth at the global level.”

27. Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many tough problems, and we need everybody's help to solve the problems. - Author: Mario J. Molina

28. In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors. - Author: Mario J. Molina

29. Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn. - Author: Mario J. Molina

30. “One of the lessons that we learned in the last century is that we need to be careful with the environment and the dangers that we create for ourselves.”

31. One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community. - Author: Mario J. Molina

32. “Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.”

33. “We are not the only species on the planet, and we share it with millions of other species that are equally important.”

34. Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry - and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere. - Author: Mario J. Molina

35. He planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don't have enough natural resources, we don't have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change. - Author: Mario J. Molina

36. “We need to build bridges between knowledge and action, between science and policy, between theory and practice.”

37. One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example. - Author: Mario J. Molina

38. “Climate change, like depletion of the ozone layer,

39. The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change. - Author: Mario J. Molina

40. “..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don't have enough natural resources, we don't have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change.”

41. I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope. - Author: Mario J. Molina

42. “Finding out for myself, for the first time, how something works is really an enormous driving force. ”

43. “We have a moral obligation to leave the world a better place than we found it.”

44. “It’s not about being anti-industry; it’s about finding the balance between protecting the environment and economic development.”