Best James Lovelock Sayings
- Let's make hay while it lasts. Hay
- 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. Companies
- China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. America
- Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem. America
- Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long. Altogether
- I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. Always Happened
- I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Certainty
- If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. America
- Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if… Another One
- One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil. Coal
- Science always uses metaphor. Always Uses
- So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel. Called
- The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. Climate
- The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. Climate
- The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Inspirational
- There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. Evidence
- 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. Been
- 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. Appalling
- Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was… Country
- We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. Any
- All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast… Accelerate
- Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being… Agreed
- I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of… Anything Meaningful
- If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal… Built
- 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… Any
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