James Lovelock Quotes

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

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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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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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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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• There aren’t just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It’s our evolutionary history.

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• The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

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• Science always uses metaphor.

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• Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• I’ve got personal views on the ’60s. You can’t have freedom without paying the price for it.

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

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Birth:	26th July, 1919
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Scientist

About

James Ephraim Lovelock was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England. He is an English scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. He earned a BS degree from Manchester University in 1941. He received his PhD in Medicine from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1948. He earned his PhD in Biophysics from London University in 1959. In the United States, he has conducted research at Yale, Baylor College of Medicine, and Harvard University. He served as professor at Baylor University College of Medicine from 1961-63. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal, the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize, the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for the Environment, Volvo Environment Prize, and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award. In 2006, he received the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Society's highest Award, whose previous recipients include Charles Darwin. He has written several books include: Gaia, a new look at life on earth, The Ages of Gaia,  Gaia, Homage To Gaia, The Revenge of Gaia, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, and Gaia Warriors.

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