Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
James Lovelock
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James Lovelock
Age: 105
Beekeeper
Biochemist
Biologist
Chemist
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Meteorologist
Mythographer
Science Fiction Writer
Scientist
Letchworth
Hertfordshire
James Ephraim Lovelock
James E. Lovelock
James E Lovelock
J. E. Lovelock
J E Lovelock
Jim Lovelock
J. Lovelock
J.E. Lovelock
J Lovelock
Lovelock
Lovelock J
Lovelock J.
Lovelock J. E.
Lovelock JE
Guess
Second
Future
Take
Mustn
Gospel
More quotes by James Lovelock
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.
James Lovelock
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
James Lovelock
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
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
James Lovelock
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
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.
James Lovelock
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.
James Lovelock
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.
James Lovelock
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
James Lovelock
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
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.
James Lovelock
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
James Lovelock
Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
James Lovelock
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
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
James Lovelock
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.
James Lovelock
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.
James Lovelock
I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.
James Lovelock
