Top 50 Quotes by James Lovelock

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

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.

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.

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.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

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

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.