There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. – James Lovelock
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
Ive got personal views on the 60s. You cant have freedom without paying the price for it. – James Lovelock
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
WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends portraits hang and look thereon Irelands history in their lineaments trace think where mans glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats