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You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

~James Lovelock

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This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

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Science always uses metaphor.

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

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

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

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Let's make hay while it lasts.

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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 it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: July 26th, 1919

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