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Quote by James Lovelock
One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can nev

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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This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. – James Lovelock

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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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Change
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. – William Jennings Bryan

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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wifes spirits. – John Gay

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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. – Annie Leibovitz

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Hope

President Obama chose politics over leadership. Hope and Change have become bait-and-switch. – Lindsey Graham

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. – Sherwood Anderson

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. – Henri Poincare

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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. – Andre Malraux

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Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. – Jonathan Sacks

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