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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

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

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

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

Nature favors those organisms...

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

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

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

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

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

An inefficient virus kills it...

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

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

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

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

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

Ask almost anybody if they th...

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

We thought we knew 20 years a...

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. 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. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

I wouldn't be against them (l...

I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

What I tend to do is to wake ...

What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

What we have lived through, t...

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

I have a feeling that climate...

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.

James Lovelock 100 quotes

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