Quote by James Lovelock
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has impr

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. – James Lovelock

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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. – James Lovelock

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power
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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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Science
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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History

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. – Doug Coupland

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History

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. – Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation

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History

Our history is not our destiny. – Alan Cohen

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History

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You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. – Hugh Laurie

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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. Whats appealing is that you dont have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. – Jane Campion

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo

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Back to School

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley

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Places