Perhaps The Single Most Important Thing That

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.

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.

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.

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

If You Start Any Large Theory, Such As Quantum Mechanics, Plate Tectonics, Evolution, It Takes About 40 Years For Mainstream Science To Come Around. Gaia Has Been Going For Only 30 Years Or So.