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 Read Quote
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. James Lovelock Read Quote
If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. James Lovelock Read Quote
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. James Lovelock Read Quote
What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: ‘Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?’ If you don’t have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours. James Lovelock Read Quote
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. James Lovelock Read Quote
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. James Lovelock Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
