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James Lovelock

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Waktu

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.

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Waktu

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.

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Waktu

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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Harapan

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

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Keluarga

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

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Harapan

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

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Kehidupan

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

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Kehidupan

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

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Nasihat

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.

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Kepemimpinan

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

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Kepemimpinan

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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Perjuangan

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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Kehidupan

Science always uses metaphor.

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Kreativitas

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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Kehidupan

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

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Kreativitas

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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Perjuangan

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

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