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I'm a scientist, not a theolo...

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

Evolution is a tightly couple...

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

Life does more than adapt to ...

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

Geological change usually tak...

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.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

You mustn't take what I say a...

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

An inefficient virus kills it...

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

Just after World War II, this...

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 a tiny proportion of what it is now.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

One pound of uranium is worth...

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

The problem is we don't know ...

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

The oil companies regard nucl...

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.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

Nature favors those organisms...

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

Life clearly does more than a...

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 and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

There aren't just bad people ...

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

I'm a scientist, not a theolo...

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

I'm not a pessimist, even tho...

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

NASA will send up a big sun s...

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.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

One thing that being a scient...

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

The tropical rain forests are...

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

I don't think we're yet evolv...

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 humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

I would only have been too pl...

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

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