James Lovelock Quotes
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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 that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.
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The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
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For each of our actions there are only consequences.
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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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One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
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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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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 burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.
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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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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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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.
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Science always uses metaphor.
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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.