James Lovelock Quotes


31 quotes:

"You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job."
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"You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future."
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"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."
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"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
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"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history."
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"The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power."
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"The beehive regulates its temperature as well as we do. The hive will regulate itself to 37 degrees no matter if it is minus 20 degrees outside."
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"Science always uses metaphor."
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"Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest."
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"One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil."
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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."
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"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes."
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"Let's make hay while it lasts."
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"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."
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"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it."
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"I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen."
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"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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"I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all."
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"Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year."
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"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
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