“Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.” IfsThinkingGivingRealityLastsAsksExampleChangedCoupleClimateDecades Author:James Lovelock
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.” IfsLandEatingEnvironmentalGave UpBeef Author:James Lovelock
“China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.” IfsKnowsAmericaRevolutionChinaAspirationRegimesCapsGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:James Lovelock
“I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.” IfsKnowsScientistCertaintyTheologianIf There Is A God Author:James Lovelock
“If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.” PeopleIfsHas BeensWarAmericaSpaceColdRussiaCold War Author:James Lovelock
“Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.” IfsMistakeDependentMaking MistakesGrants Author: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.” IfsLooksEarthChanceSpaceExplorationSpace ExplorationNasa Author:James Lovelock
“If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.” IfsBuiltPlantOilNuclearFuelStationsConsumptionCoalFossilsFossil FuelDown The RoadBurning Fossil FuelsNuclear Plants Author: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.” IfsYearsHas BeensTheoryEvolutionMainstreamQuantumPlatesMechanicQuantum MechanicsGaia Author: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.” IfsWarEarthHumanityCrazyBreatheNuclearReliefSighProgrammesNuclear WarSigh Of Relief Author:James Lovelock
“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.” IfsThinkingMindWellsKindDoeI CanDoneHappensImaginationMorningFiveModelsExperimentsInventionGet UpStringsBreakfastConstructsBenches Author:James Lovelock
“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsYearsHumansMayLittlesSaidSeemsEarthChanceAnimalMistakeTakenCenturyDiseaseIntelligentCommunicateBillionsStatementsEvolveOddElitesOrganisms20th CenturyAnimal Life Author:James Lovelock
“I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.” IfsWindTurbinesWind Turbines Author:James Lovelock
“I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.” IfsShouldMindBelieveHas BeensAbleDon't BelieveDataBelieve In MeMeasurement Author:James Lovelock
