Quote by James Lovelock
I dont think were yet evolved to the point where were clever enoug

I dont think were yet evolved to the point where were clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you cant really do anything meaningful. – 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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History
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I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldnt surprise me at all. – James Lovelock

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power
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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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The question, Ive come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. – Aristotle

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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. – Euripedes

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Change

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan

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Change

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