lovelock Quotes

“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.”

“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”

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

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

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