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George B. Schaller
(1933 - )
German-American zoologist.
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Science Quotes by George B. Schaller (4 quotes)
For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.
— George B. Schaller
Attributed.
In a hundred and fifty years the United States has lost one third of its topsoil. And I think about two hundred fifty million acres are turning into desert because of overgrazing and other mismanagement.
— George B. Schaller
From interview collected in Pamela Weintraub (ed.), The Omni Interviews (1984), 82.
It is estimated that thirty-five to fifty acres of rain forest are chopped down every minute.
— George B. Schaller
From interview collected in Pamela Weintraub (ed.), The Omni Interviews (1984), 80.
Wildlife management consists mainly of raising more animals for hunters to shoot.
— George B. Schaller
From interview collected in Pamela Weintraub (ed.), The Omni Interviews (1984), 78.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
