Cleveland Abbe

“The atmosphere is a great ocean, and we are living at the bottom of it.”

“The public demands forecasts, and we must do the best we can with the means at hand.”

“I have not been asked to prophesy, but to give the results of my study of the laws of storms.”

“The study of the atmosphere is a problem in hydrodynamics, and I have found it so interesting and difficult that it seems to me to be the problem of my life.”

“A forecast is not a prophecy; it is a statement of what is most likely to happen.”

“Scientific forecasting... is the only legitimate and logical method of getting at the truth.”