James E. Lovelock: Doing

James E. Lovelock is independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Neither Lynn Margulis nor I have ever proposed a teleological hypothesis. Nowhere in our writing do we express the idea that planetary self-regulation is purposeful, or involves planetary foresight or planning by the biota. …Yet we met persistent, almost dogmatic, criticism that our hypothesis is teleological.”

James E. Lovelock

Healing Gaia (1991)

Idea

“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 E. Lovelock

Interview with The Guardian (29 March 2010)

Thinking , Change

“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.”

James E. Lovelock

Interview with The Guardian (29 March 2010)

Way , Feeling , Science

“In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.”

James E. Lovelock

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)

Life , Fashion , Nature , Forgetting

“If there were a billion people living on the planet, we could do whatever we please. But there are nearly seven billion. At this scale, life as we know it today is not sustainable.”

James E. Lovelock

How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate (2010) as quoted by Jeff Goodell

Life , People