James Lovelock Quotes

The World Has Not Warmed Up Very Much Since The Millennium.

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.

I Wouldn't Be Against Them (large Wind Turbines) If They Actually Worked.

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.

Imagine A Survivor Of A Failed Civilization With Only A Tattered Book On Aromatherapy For Guidance In Arresting A Cholera Epidemic. Yet, Such A Book Would More Likely Be Found Amid The Debris Than A Comprehensible Medical Text.

China Will Soon Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than America, But Its Regime Knows If It Caps Aspirations There Will Be A Revolution.

If It Hadn't Been For The Cold War, Neither Russia Nor America Would Have Been Sending People Into Space.

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.

No One Who Has Experienced The Intense Involvement Of Computer Modeling Would Deny That The Temptation Exists To Use Any Data Input That Will Enable One To Continue Playing What Is Perhaps The Ultimate Game Of Solitaire.

Let's Make Hay While It Lasts.

Florida Will Be Gone Altogether, The Whole Damned Place, In Not Too Long.

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.