"One of my favourite websites is called Science Heroes: it ranks the giants of the scientific world according to estimates of how many lives they’ve saved. **We might imagine that someone in the medical sciences tops the list. But no: it’s the agricultural scientists,** [[Carl Bosch]], [[Fritz Haber]] and [[Norman Borlaug]]. Many of us owe the fact that we are alive to them. ([Location 2498](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=2498))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fertilisers]], [[ammonia]], [[technology]], [[growth]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]