Quotes about weather
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Stephen Wolfram photo

“[W]e live... in the pockets of reducibility. ...I should have realized [that] very many years ago, but didn't... [I]t could very well be that everything about the world is computationally irreducible and completely unpredictable, but... in our experience of the world there is at least some amount of prediction we can make. ...[T]hat's because we have ...chosen a slice of ...how to think about the universe, in which we can... sample a certain amount of computational reducibility, and that's... where we exist. ...It may not be the whole story about how the universe is, but it is that part of the universe that we care about and ...operate in. ...In science, that's been ...a very special case ...science has chosen to talk a lot about places where there is this computational reducibility... The motion of the planets can be ...predicted. The... weather is much harder to predict. ...[S]cience has tended to concentrate itself on places where its methods have allowed successful prediction.”

Stephen Wolfram (1959) British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physicist, writer and businessman

Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe (Sep 15, 2020)

Success, Universe, Thinking, World
Example (musician) photo

“If we're meant to be together,
change the way you see the weather
Live for now, forget forever”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

&quot;Midnight Run&quot; (song) <br class="br"> (&quot;Midnight Run&quot;, Official video on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYGi7YG4Js <br class="br"> (+ &quot;Midnight Run&quot;, a lyrics version on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPthxsXgSl4 <br class="br"> (+ &quot;Midnight Run&quot; (Wilkinson Remix on YouTube)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_38kriBBg <br class="br"> (+ &quot;Midnight Run&quot; (Wideboys Remix on YouTube)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qwxq4qxEqQ <br class="br">Studio albums, Playing in the Shadows (2011)

Way, Forgetting, Change
Vera Stanley Alder photo

“Can we grasp, for instance, that in spite of weather vagaries, even in spite of present soil erosion, there is and could be more than enough produced to-day to allow everyone everywhere a fair standard of living, without entailing drudgery for anybody?”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World

Alastair Reynolds photo

“Venus was a machine for making bad weather.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 12 (p. 135)

Anne Applebaum photo

“The archival record backs up the testimony of the survivors. Neither crop failure nor bad weather caused the famine in Ukraine.”

Anne Applebaum (1964) journalist

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (2017) quoted at &quot;Ukraine in the Flames of the 1917 Revolution&quot; (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, September 13, 2017) https://huri.harvard.edu/news/ukraine-flames-1917-revolution

Failure
Wallace Stevens photo

“It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.

The weather and the giant of the weather,
Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air:
An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract