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- The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living…
- The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my…
- I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded…
- Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words…
- The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far…
- Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the…
- Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
- There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the…
- Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in…
- Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
- It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's…
- Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life…
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