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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.
James Lovelock
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
James Lovelock
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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
James Lovelock
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I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
James Lovelock
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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.
James Lovelock
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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.
James Lovelock
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Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock
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You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
James Lovelock
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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.
James Lovelock
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One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
James Lovelock
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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.
James Lovelock
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Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
James Lovelock
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