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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. – James Lovelock

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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. – James Lovelock

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Ive got personal views on the 60s. You cant have freedom without paying the price for it. – James Lovelock

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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 dont know it. – James Lovelock

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. – Noam Chomsky

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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. – Karl Marx

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DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. – Kenneth Boulding, “Energy and the Environment,” Beasts, Ballads, and Bouldingism

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I do enjoy reading some science fiction. – Colin Farrell

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