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James Lovelock Quotes

English - Scientist | July 26, 1919 -

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.

World Doing Now Nothing Halfway

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Consequences Only Actions Our Each

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.

Job Saying Negative You Know Say

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

Future You Say Take Second-Guess

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

History Intelligence Individual Our

Science always uses metaphor.

Science Always Metaphor Uses

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.

Science War World You Measure Way

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Food Environmental Eating Now Land

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

War Space People Cold America Been

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

Think Happen Things Pessimist Going

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

God Religion Know Certainty Requires

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

Long Place Will Florida Gone Whole

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