James Lovelock Quotes
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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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Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
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If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
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The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
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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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For each of our actions there are only consequences.
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One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
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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 you do.
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Science always uses metaphor.
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Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
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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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Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.
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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
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The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to survive unscathed a drive blindfold through rush hour traffic.